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verifiability principle — noun or verifiability theory : a proposal or claim of early logical positivists according to which a requirement or criterion for the meaningfulness of a factual statement is its susceptibility to the possibility of being either theoretically or… … Useful english dictionary
ИСТИНА — гносеологическая характеристика мышления в его отношении к своему предмету. Мысль называется истинной (или просто И.), если она соответствует своему предмету, т.е. представляет его таким, каков он есть на самом деле. Соответственно, ложной… … Философская энциклопедия
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positivism — positivist, adj., n. positivistic, adj. positivistically, adv. /poz i teuh viz euhm/, n. 1. the state or quality of being positive; definiteness; assurance. 2. a philosophical system founded by Auguste Comte, concerned with positive facts and… … Universalium
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Qualitative psychological research — In psychology, qualitative research has come to be defined as research whose findings are not arrived at by statistical or other quantitative procedures. Qualitative research is often said to be naturalistic . That is, its goal is to understand… … Wikipedia
Testability — Testability, a property applying to an empirical hypothesis, involves two components: (1) the logical property that is variously described as contingency, defeasibility, or falsifiability, which means that counterexamples to the hypothesis are… … Wikipedia
