logical positivism
logical positivism
nounDefinition of LOGICAL POSITIVISM
: 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 are therefore strictly meaningless —called also logical empiricism
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1931
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