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Examination of logical positivism

By: Series: Philosophy of logic and mathematics vol. VIIIPublication details: London Routledge 2001Description: vii, 311 pISBN:
  • 9780415225496
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 146.42
Summary: A thorough and critical account of the development of the logical positivism movement, from the Tractatus Logicophilosophieus of Wittgenstein to the works of Carnap and Neurath. Logical positivism and logical empiricism, which together formed neopositivism, was a movement in Western philosophy whose central thesis was verificationism, a theory of knowledge which asserted that only statements verifiable through empirical observation are meaningful. The movement flourished in the 1920s and 1930s in several European centers.
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A thorough and critical account of the development of the logical positivism movement, from the Tractatus Logicophilosophieus of Wittgenstein to the works of Carnap and Neurath. Logical positivism and logical empiricism, which together formed neopositivism, was a movement in Western philosophy whose central thesis was verificationism, a theory of knowledge which asserted that only statements verifiable through empirical observation are meaningful. The movement flourished in the 1920s and 1930s in several European centers.

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