Verification
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- Created on: 03-06-18 19:33
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Logical positivists accepted statements that could be regarded as meaningful according to their relationship to logical reasoning and empirical evidence:
- Tautological statements
- Mathematical statements
- Synthetic statements (could be proven to be true by some form of sense experience)
- Analytic statements (truth of the statement is contained within the statement)
Statements that lay outside of such logical reasoning and empirical evidence were considered to be meaningless
- For logical positivists, this became known as the principle of verification: the meaning of a statement is its method of verification; we know the meaning of a statement if we know the conditions under which the statement is true or false
Ayer developed the work of the logical positivists and set out a critera for how language could be considered to…
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