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logical positivist — logical positivism … Philosophy dictionary
logical positivist — noun see logical positivism … New Collegiate Dictionary
logical positivist — noun An adherant of the logical positivism school of philosophy … Wiktionary
Logical positivism — (also known as logical empiricism, scientific philosophy, and neo positivism) is a philosophy that combines empiricism the idea that observational evidence is indispensable for knowledge with a version of rationalism incorporating mathematical… … Wikipedia
logical positivism — logical positivist. a philosophical movement that stresses the function of philosophy as a method of criticizing and analyzing science and that rejects all transcendental metaphysics, statements of fact being held to be meaningful only if they… … Universalium
logical positivism — noun the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) • Syn: ↑positivism • Derivationally related forms: ↑logical positivist, ↑positivistic (for: ↑positivism), ↑positivist … Useful english dictionary
positivist — I noun someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes (Freq. 6) • Syn: ↑rationalist • Derivationally related forms: ↑rationalism (for: ↑rationalist), ↑ … Useful english dictionary
logical positivism — noun Date: 1931 a 20th century philosophical movement that holds characteristically that all meaningful statements are either analytic or conclusively verifiable or at least confirmable by observation and experiment and that metaphysical theories … New Collegiate Dictionary
Science (Philosophies of) — Philosophies of science Mach, Duhem, Bachelard Babette E.Babich THE TRADITION OF CONTINENTAL PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE If the philosophy of science is not typically represented as a ‘continental’ discipline it is nevertheless historically rooted in… … History of philosophy
Timeline of Western philosophers — A wide ranging list of philosophers from the Western traditions of philosophy. Included are not only philosophers (Socrates, Plato), but also those who have had a marked importance upon the philosophy of the day.The list stops at the year 1950,… … Wikipedia
