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verification principle
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verification principle
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(Philosophy) (in the philosophy of the logical positivists) the doctrine that nontautologous statements are meaningful only if it is in principle possible to establish empirically whether they are true or false
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Popper's variation on verificationism still targeted the problem of demarcating science from non-science, but offers a far less dogmatic picture of the nature of scientific knowledge.
"The two cultures" and the historical perspective on science as a ... by Rochberg, Francesca / Forum on Public Policy: A Journal of the Oxford Round Table
One of Nelson's most helpful (if brief) discussions is on the "Failure of Logical Positivism" and its replacement today with an operative neo-positivism that retains positivism's classic hostility toward religious modes of knowing while embracing more fulsome discussion of core assumptions and blending elements of classic empirical verificationism with broader methods for ascertaining scientific validity (Nelson, this issue).
Integration: defending it, describing it, doing it by Jones, Stanton L. / Journal of Psychology and Theology
It is equally curious that he should go on to assert blithely that empirical evidence is unable to point to anything beyond nature, as if verificationism had never been discredited.
Analyzing evil by Goss, Max / New Criterion
 
 
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