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logical positivism

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logical positivism
n.
A philosophy asserting the primacy of observation in assessing the truth of statements of fact and holding that metaphysical and subjective arguments not based on observable data are meaningless. Also called logical empiricism.
logical positivism
n
(Philosophy) a philosophical theory that holds to be meaningful only those propositions that can be analysed by the tools of logic into elementary propositions that are either tautological or are empirically verifiable. It therefore rejects metaphysics, theology, and sometimes ethics as meaningless
logical positivism
positivism, def. 2.
See also: Philosophy
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Noun1.logical positivism - the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
positivism
empiricism, empiricist philosophy, sensationalism - (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
Comtism - Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top


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The knowledge representations resting upon the epistemological foundations of logical positivism in its operationalist and representational approaches to meaning are further distanced from natural language than those resting upon an instrumental approach to meaning.
The epistemological foundations of knowledge representations by Svenonius, Elaine / Library Trends
Going on to question this early formalist approach, a move that evoked Ludwig Wittgenstein's reevaluation in Philosophical Investigations of the logical positivism of Tractatus, he created a subjective, associative language of architecture using what he called masques.
John Hejduk. (Reviews: New York) by Meredith, Michael / Artforum International
The Principia project did suggest the need for precise logical formulation of the truth conditions of sentences--something that became a consuming interest of logical positivism and some species of "analytic" philosophy.
HE DIDN'T ADD UP by O'Brien, Dennis / Commonweal
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