SINCE 1828
verifiability principle
noun
variants:
or verifiability theory
Definition of verifiability principle
: 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 actually proved true or false by reference to empirical facts — compare confirmability theory
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