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| | Logical positivism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Logical positivism denied the soundness of metaphysics and traditional philosophy, and affirmed that statements about metaphysics, religion and ethics are devoid of cognitive meaning and thus nothing but expression of feelings or desires; only statements about mathematics, logic and natural sciences have a definite meaning. | | | Not all logical positivists' reactions to the Tractatus were positive: according to Neurath, it was full of metaphysics. | | | Many subsequent commentators on "logical positivism" have attributed to its proponents a greater unity of purpose and creed than they actually shared, overlooking the complex disagreements among the logical positivists themselves. |
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| | CHAPTER VIII |
| | Positivism (with an interesting exception, namely Hume) is regarded by them as an embodiment of everything that is the worst in the Spirit of the Enlightenment: its emphasis on wholeness, unity, unequivocalness of knowledge and its use of knowledge as means to achieve social progress. | | | Postmodernism shares with positivism and, especially logical positivism, some other epistemological features including those it pretends to be anti-positivist and, first of all, relativism and fallibilism. | | | Their attacks on the fundamental principles of positivism were followed by later ones coming from different quarters and assailing positivism on different lines. |
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| | Logical Positivism J.Passmore (1967) |
| | Logical positivism, we might say, split into three groups, one asserting physicalism, the second rejecting it, and the third expressing a preference for the physicalist language. | | | The logical positivists thought of themselves as extending the range of science over the whole area of systematic truth and as needing for that purpose to destroy the claim of idealist philosophers to have a special kind of suprascientific access to truth. | | | Logical positivism, then, is dead, or as dead as a philosophical movement ever becomes. |
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| | Logical Positivism |
| | And merely logical truths are trivial in the sense that they tell us nothing about the nature of the world (Any sentence of the form 'Either P or not P', for instance, is a basic logical truth. | | | Progress in symbolic logic towards the end of the 19th century in the work of Gottlob Frege and at the outset of the 20th century in the work of Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead provided the positivists with powerful new tools for developing Empiricist views of scientific knowledge. | | | For instance, "all of the coins in my pocket are dimes" has the logical form we've attributed to laws. |
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| | Henrique Carlos Jales Ribeiro |
| | That there must be a pure datum is, I think, a logically irrefutable consequence of the fact that perception gives rise to new knowledge. | | | Therefore, we could ask what is, according to Russell, the connection between reductionism and holism in logical positivism. | | | Note, once more, that nothing in the texts quoted until now suggested that Russell would thought that reductionism is the essential characteristic of the logical positivist theory of meaning and truth, as the theory of Quine and C.ie, more recently, asserts. |
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| | Logical and factual truth, and the distinction between the two, was established. | | | All else was metaphysics: statements which began in theology, religion, idealistic philosophy, were meaningless. | | | Received View, as defined by Hands, includes Logical Empiricism And Popperian Falsificationism. |
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http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cferh2/5900Lecture3AttacksOnReceivedView.doc
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| | LogBlog: Course on Logical Positivism - Richard Zach's Logic and Philosophy Blog |
| | As to the influence of Tractatus and its author on Logical Positivism, there are some interesting passages in Monk's "Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius" . | | | I committed to teach a course on Logical Positivism next year, and I have to figure out which books I should order. | | | Syntax is a surprisingly interesting and readable book, especially since it at first looks like a logic text book in a formalism no one uses anymore. |
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http://www.ucalgary.ca/~rzach/logblog/2005/04/course-on-logical-positivism.html
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| | Beyond Logical Positivism |
| | Is Logical Positivism a Church or a Method ? | | | So Logical Positivism says it is an effort to provide us with a method to tell the 'significant' sentences from those that are not. | | | So, when you mention religion and metaphysics, I see the ghosts of the old pistis and sophia. |
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| | Logical Positivism: An Introduction |
| | But if, as the Logical Positivists claim, the statement, "God exists" is meaningless then these positions are meaningless also. | | | The world is the totality of facts and not of things' he was not only beginning a book but also a movement in philosophy called Logical Positivism. | | | The theist says its true, the atheist says its false, the agnostic says it may be true or false but we can't tell and the non-theist says its true under certain conditions. |
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| | The proximate predecessor of metaphysical positivism is logical positivism. | | | Much of metaphysics as it is and has been practiced remains beyond the pale, but reasons are discussed for taking some metaphysical problems seriously, for telling which ones they are, and for making some progress on them. | | | The logical aspects are thereby rendered as rigorous and reliable as mathematics, and other aspects are exposed for other kinds of scrutiny. |
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| | Logical Positivism |
| | Under the leadership of Moritz Schlick, this informal gathering (the "Vienna Circle") campaigned for a systematic reduction of human knowledge to logical and scientific foundations. | | | Ayer presented many of the central doctrines of the positivist movement in his 1936 book, Language, Truth, and Logic. | | | Using the formal methods of mathematical logic, then, the goal is to construct a strictly scientific language that perspicuously represents the structure of the world as a whole. |
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| | Oldroyd on Logical Positivism and Logical Empiricism |
| | Notes - Comte and Logical Positivism (Oldroyd, ch. | | | And in its most thoroughgoing and pure form, positivism subscribes to a phenomenalist epistemology. | | | Influenced by utopian doctrines of Saint-Simon, a precursor of the socialist movement. |
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http://www.drury.edu/ess/philsci/Positivism.html
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| | Logical Positivism & Radical Behaviorism |
| | “Logical Positivism is dead
” at least according to the Encyclopedia of Philosophy. | | | “Logical Positivism is dead
” (Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 1972) | | | But with respect to LOGICAL POSITIVISM I think the statement is probably true. |
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| | Amazon.com: Reconsidering Logical Positivism: Books: Michael Friedman |
| | There is a movement of reconsidering logical positivism since the 1990's. | | | A lot of the received view on logical positivism is refuted in this book. | | | Anybody, who is interested in logical positivism, and wants to learn more on it, not just the received view, this book is interesting. |
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| | Level 5 QTO The SOM ISMs |
| | Despite his mysticism, Plotinus' method was thoroughly rational, based on the logical traditions of the Greeks. | | | A doctrine contending that sense perceptions are the only admissible basis of human knowledge and precise thought. | | | The application of this doctrine in logic, epistemology, and ethics. |
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| | Logical Positivism (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy) |
| | logical positivism] consists in denying the possibility of synthetic a priori knowledge. | | | According to logical positivism, there are only two sources of knowledge: logical reasoning and empirical experience. | | | (Also known as logical empiricism, logical neopositivism, neopositivism). |
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| | positivism articles on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Sometimes associated with empiricism, positivism maintains that metaphysical questions are unanswerable and that the only knowledge is scientific knowledge. | | | scientific empiricism SCIENTIFIC EMPIRICISM [scientific empiricism] see logical positivism. | | | logical positivism LOGICAL POSITIVISM [logical positivism] also known as logical or scientific empiricism, modern school of philosophy that attempted to introduce the methodology and precision of mathematics and the natural sciences into the field of philosophy. |
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| | LOGICAL POSITIVISM |
| | The central position in positivism is that one can acquire truth without knowing the ultimate nature of things. | | | The third form of positivism,called logical positivism, was a point of view about what should be the nature of science. | | | From 1923 on, the development of logical positivism could be traced by the national and international conferences which were held. |
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| | Positivism |
| | Positivism is essentially empiricism brought to extreme logical consequences in certain respects: inasmuch as any knowledge is empirical knowledge in one form or another, no speculation can be knowledge. | | | The main place in the third positivism is taken by the philosophical problems of language, symbolic logic, the structure of scientific investigations, and others. | | | Positivism claims to be a fundamentally new, non-metaphysical ("positive") philosophy, modelled on empirical sciences and providing them with a methodology. |
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| | RECENT PHILOSOPHY: Logical Positivism & Analytic Philosophy |
| | Logical positivism does not have the influence it once had. | | | His work is mainly in symbolic logic and the logic of ordinary language, although he also writes in the field of ontology. | | | Logical positivism is opposed to metaphysics in any form. |
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| | LTL - Lecture ii - Comte, Ayer and logical positivism |
| | He argued the humankind had gone through three great phases of searching for understanding: the theological (involving a search for God and spirituality), the metaphysical (the search for philosophical truths) and now the positive or scientific phase (involving the search for facts). | | | Renamed as ‘logical positivism’ there was now an emphasis on theories and the logical deduction of hypotheses to test those hypotheses as well as the collection of facts. | | | The first claim of logical positivists is that a statement can only be true only if either (i) it is a self-evident analytic, deductive truth of the kind found in mathematics and formal logic (e.g. |
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| | This is a straightforward, logically valid argument of the form known as MODUS TOLLENS. | | | One of the primary concerns of logical positivism is the PROBLEM OF DEMARCATION: What kinds of claims are properly scientific, and which are not? | | | Logical Empiricism Some later philosophers in this vein began to loosen up the standard of meaningfulness even as they continued to look for the logical underpinnings of scientific method. |
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| | Philosophy of Science 305 |
| | The Logical Positivists were, in some sense, the first full-fledged philosophers of science – the first people to grapple with many of the issues that are now central to philosophy of science. | | | The positivists thought that logical terms (including mathematical terms) were meaningful just by their definitions, and that these terms had no reference to anything in the world. | | | Many logical positivists had background as physicists and mathematicians. |
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| | Logical Positivism: A Dumb Definition |
| | Philosophical position that if you are logical, you are positively correct, and if you are positive, it must be logical. | | | Problem is, humans are rather illogical creatures who are often positive but not very logical. | | | This is demonstrated logically and positively through the common experience of husbands who suffer through wifely tirades over housework, budgets, etc. that are positively illogical, or if they are logical, are not very positive. |
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| | Dictionary of the History of Ideas |
| | Most of the original “classics” of logical positivism, logical | | | This view may be considered as a logical | | | of the Vienna Circle of Logical Positivsts and The |
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| | logical positivism on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Bibliography: See A. Ayer, ed., Logical Positivism (1959, repr. | | | LOGICAL POSITIVISM [logical positivism] also known as logical or scientific empiricism, modern school of philosophy that attempted to introduce the methodology and precision of mathematics and the natural sciences into the field of philosophy. | | | The logical positivists made a concerted effort to clarify the language of science by showing that the content of scientific theories could be reduced to truths of logic and mathematics coupled with propositions referring to sense experience. |
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| | logical positivism |
| | Logical positivism, also known as logical empiricism, is a philosophical attitude which holds, among other things, that metaphysics, more or less, is bunk. | | | Critics of logical positivism have pointed out that since the verifiability principle itself cannot be proved true or false by means of experience, it is therefore meaningless. | | | Metaphysical statements cannot be proved by means of experience. |
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| | Logical positivism |
| | One famous dissenter from the philosophy of logical positivism was Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889 – 1951); this despite his Viennese birth and his early philosophical training at the University of Vienna. | | | The approach is therefore fundamentally opposed to the doctrine of VERSTEHEN, which springs from the work of Giambattista Vico (1668 – 1744). | | | The approach lays emphasis on a unity of methodology across all of the cognitive sciences, including Psychology, and argues that this methodology must be modelled on that of the natural sciences. |
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| | Religion E1: Logical Positivism |
| | { 1 } - analytic (true because of logical connections and the meaning of terms). |
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| | Vienna Circle and Logical Positivism at Erratic Impact's Philosophy Research Base |
| | He completed his doctoral dissertation under Hahn's supervision in 1929 and became a member of the faculty of the University of Vienna in 1930, where he belonged to the school of logical positivism until 1938.... | | | The Könisberg congress (1930) was very important, for Gödel announced he has proved the completeness of first order logic and the incompleteness of arithmetic. | | | It became slowly obvious that he would stick with logic, that he was to be Hahn's student and not Schlick's, that he was incredibly talented. |
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| | C13NeoBehaviorism |
| | Logical positivism became the lingua franca of neobehaviorism | | | Tolman and his students spent more time fighting Hull than they did in offering a logical alternative to Hullian theorizing | | | Logical positivism provided a way out by postulating: |
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| | PhilSci Archive - Subject: Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism |
| | Stöltzner, Michael (2002) The Principle of Least Action as the Logical Empiricist's Shibboleth. | | | Frost-Arnold, Greg (2004) The Large-Scale Structure of Logical Empiricism: |
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| | Logical positivism and quantitative research |
| | It is argued that the underlying philosophy of modern quantitative research in psychology is in sharp contrast to logical positivism. | | | This article examines the relationship between quantitative research and eight major notions of logical positivism: (a) verification, (b) pro-observation, (c) anti-cause, (d) downplaying explanation, (e) anti-theoretical entities, (f) anti-metaphysics, (g) logical analysis and (h) frequentist probability. | | | Although quantitative research methodology is widely applied by educational and psychological researchers, there is a common misconception that quantitative research is based upon logical positivism. |
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| | logical positivism |
| | Strauss Logical Positivism: The Vienna Circle Unity of Science Its Program and Presuppositions (Progenitor to Post Modern Relativism) | | | Objective Knowledge: A Realist View of Logic, Physics, and History (1966) | | | The Vienna Circle (Erratic Impact, philosophic research base) |
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| | AskOxford: logical positivism |
| | • noun a form of positivism which considers that the only meaningful philosophical problems are those which can be solved by logical analysis. |
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