Questions tagged [verificationism]
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Did logical positivists consider subjective statements verifiable?
Did logical positivists consider subjective statements such as "I like this cake" verifiable and therefore meaningful? Or did they consider that verificationism doesn't apply to claims of ...
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To what extent does a hypothesis have to be testable to be regarded as scientific?
In the vein of verificationism and related to problems of falsifiability as per Karl Popper, I ask the following:
Let's say hypothesis X is proposed in order to account for a certain set of observable ...
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Actual and potential truth for neo-verificationists
Neo-verificationists such as Martin-Löf and Prawitz make a distinction between actual and potential truth of a proposition, roughly defined as follows:
... that a proposition A is actually true means ...
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Is verificationism dead?
A long time ago, I was taught that logical positivism, though very productive in explicating what it means for one science to reduce to another (e.g. chemistry to physics), died because the ...
