logical positivism

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Logical positivism is a 20th-century philosophical movement that emphasizes the verification of statements through empirical observation and logical analysis, rejecting metaphysics as cognitively meaningless.

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logical positivism canonical 33
logical empiricism 19
verificationism 2

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instanceOf epistemological doctrine
form of empiricism
philosophical movement
school of analytic philosophy
alternativeName logical positivism
surface form: logical empiricism

neo-positivism
associatedWork Language, Truth and Logic
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
surface form: The Logical Structure of the World

The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle
basedOn empiricism
formal logic
corePrinciple anti-metaphysical stance
distinction between analytic and synthetic statements
emphasis on empirical observation
emphasis on logical analysis of language
meaning of a statement is its method of verification
rejection of metaphysics as cognitively meaningless
scientific worldview
verification principle
criticizedBy Karl Popper
Michael Polanyi
Thomas Kuhn
Willard Van Orman Quine
surface form: W. V. O. Quine
declinePeriod mid-20th century
developedByGroup Berlin Circle
Vienna Circle
emergedInCentury 20th century
historicalPeak 1920s
1930s
influencedBy Bertrand Russell
David Hume
Ernst Mach
Gottlob Frege
Ludwig Wittgenstein
influencedByWork Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
keyFigure A. J. Ayer
Hans Reichenbach
Herbert Feigl
Kurt Gödel
Moritz Schlick
Otto Neurath
Philipp Frank
Rudolf Carnap
legacy contributed to linguistic turn in philosophy
influenced philosophy of science
shaped analytic philosophy
methodologicalStance reduction of theoretical terms to observational terms
unification of science
philosophicalDomain epistemology
philosophy of language
philosophy of science
positionOnEthics ethical statements are expressions of emotion or attitude
positionOnMetaphysics metaphysical statements are meaningless
positionOnTheology theological statements lack cognitive meaning

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Hempel movement logical positivism
subject surface form: Carl Gustav Hempel
this entity surface form: logical empiricism
Philosophy of Natural Science influencedBy logical positivism
Hans Vaihinger influenced logical positivism
"The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis" by Oppenheim and Putnam relatedConcept logical positivism
subject surface form: The Unity of Science as a Working Hypothesis
this entity surface form: logical empiricism
Ernest Nagel movement logical positivism