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| | Logical positivism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | However, Wittgenstein himself was not a logical positivist, although he was on friendly terms with many members of the Vienna Circle. | | | Critics of Logical Positivism say that its fundamental tenets could not themselves be formulated in a way that was clearly consistent. | | | The term subsequently came to be almost interchangeable with "analytic philosophy" in the first half of the twentieth century. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism
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| | Logical Positivism J.Passmore (1967) |
| | 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, 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 themselves were much more concerned about the fact that the verifiability principle threatened to destroy not only metaphysics but also science. |
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http://www.comnet.ca/~pballan/logicalpos(Passmore).htm
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| | RECENT PHILOSOPHY: Logical Positivism & Analytic Philosophy |
| | Russell thought of the new logic as the bare bones of an ideal language, a language in which the wording of all propositions would reveal their true logical forms. | | | The adherents of logical positivism, who were strongly influenced by Wittgenstein's ideas... | | | Propositions belonging to traditional metaphysics -- such as those about the existence of God, for example -- were deemed not to meet this condition and were declared meaningless. |
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http://radicalacademy.com/adiphilogicalpositivism.htm
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| | Crescat Sententia: July 20, 2003 - July 26, 2003 Archives |
| | Note that I only began engaging in logical argument in order to respond to his logical argument; this is logical self-defense, as they say. | | | These questions are not answered by science, or religion, or metaphysics, or logic. | | | Rather, both of these "rights" are not logically inferred from anything at all; they come into being as they are. |
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http://www.crescatsententia.org/archives/week_2003_07_20.html
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| | Topics 1&2: Philosophy of Science, mind/body We will start with the 20th century positivists, who called themselves logical positivists in order to distinguish their positions from their 19th century counterparts. | | | That is, it has logical or definitional meaning. | | | Topics 1&2: Philosophy of science, mind/body Second, they postulated two kinds of meaning: Meaning 1 is logical or formal meaning. |
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http://www.psyc.memphis.edu/faculty/gholson/4101/mind-body.doc
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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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http://undead-philosophy.blogspot.com
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| | Ref: First Half of the 20th Century - By Miles Hodges |
| | He also pointed out the impossibility of extracting a "true" or "historical" Jesus from the scriptural account of the early church--for what was given there was not a "factual" description of Jesus at all, but rather the reflections of the faithful as to the ultimate meaning of Christ. | | | Schweitzer carried forth Weiss' critique of Biblical criticism, pointing out that Jesus lived entirely to the expectation that the Kingdom of God was immanent and that it is absurd to speculate using modern logic that Jesus was trying to force the event with his death. | | | Evengelicalism departs very strongly from both fundamentalism and liberalism, which attempt to found the Christian faith on some sort of objective system of "facts." Faith, not fact, is the truth-foundation for evangelicalism. |
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http://www.newgenevacenter.org/reference/20th-1st2.htm
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| | Logical Positivism |
| | Ayer presented many of the central doctrines of the positivist movement in his 1936 book, Language, Truth, and Logic. | | | 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. | | | 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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http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/6q.htm
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| | Book Review |
| | First, the logical positivists were not concerned primarily with establishing a radical empiricist foundation for knowledge. | | | In fact, much of their efforts went to establishing arguments contrary to foundationalism and even to empiricism. | | | Given the apparent relativizing advances in geometry and physics, the logical positivists were concerned with articulating relativized apriori principles (i.e., principles to explicate how scientific knowledge is possible). |
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http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/dboersema.html
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| | ProgChI.html |
| | But what was shocking was that Newtonians had uncritically made assumptions about the nature of space and time which could not even be tested and, hence, were without empirical significance. | | | Science does not and cannot grow through monotonic accumulation of positive knowledge claims. | | | According to the logical positivists, scientific systems should be expressed using two different languages. |
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http://www.indiana.edu/~koertge/ProgChI.html
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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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http://www.loyno.edu/~folse/logpos.htm
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| | Behavior and Philosophy: LOGICAL POSITIVISM, NATURALISTIC EPISTEMOLOGY, AND THE FOUNDATIONS OF PSYCHOLOGY |
| | It was not the philosophy of logical positivism that shaped their views, although logical positivism might have reinforced them. | | | Before coming under the influence of the logical positivists, however, psychological behaviorists had no well-developed indigenous views about epistemology, philosophy of science, or the philosophy of mind. | | | This view is also associated with Carnap, Hempel, and others. |
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3814/is_200401/ai_n9383863
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| | Religion E1: Logical Positivism |
| | Some believers say that God is a complete mystery -- and that our talk about God is literally nonsensical. | | | Logical positivists think that it's nonsense to talk about God, since claims about God are neither empirical nor analytic. | | | Logical positivists would say that, if we really can't talk meaningful about God, then we should avoid the word "God." |
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http://www.jcu.edu/philosophy/Gensler/RE/r-e1--0d.htm
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| | Philosophy and Monty Python |
| | But, as some of you might have noticed in Philosophy 1504, the theory of argument asks that you grant certain crucial statements beforehand, without argument. | | | Hang on, I've got one more thing to say. | | | First, not one of the players is a logical positivist. |
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| | Philosophical Dictionary: Leibniz-Logos |
| | (1913)—of showing that arithmetical knowledge can be demonstrated upon the basis of purely logical axioms and definitions. | | | Modern Logic: A Text in Elementary Symbolic Logic | | | Decline and Obsolescence of Logical Empiricism: Carnap vs. Quine and the Critics |
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| | Popper, Sir Karl Raimund on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Popper also questioned historicism (the doctrine that there are general laws of history) because history, as he saw it, is influenced by the growth of knowledge, and, since knowing is a matter of unpredictable insight, neither the growth of knowledge nor its historical consequences can be systematized. | | | Like the logical positivists, Popper worked with the distinction between scientific knowledge and pseudoscience, but he understood the two to be related as well as distinct: pseudoscience or “myth,” as he sometimes termed it, can inspire or grow into science, or overlap with it (as in the case of psychology). | | | He became familiar with the Vienna circle of logical positivists (see logical positivism) while a student at the Univ. of Vienna (Ph.D., 1928). |
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| | What he will try to show is that logical positivism by definition regards itself as a “pseudo statement”. | | | The claim of the logical positivists is that the meaning of a sentence is based upon its method of verification. | | | The two most popular theories are known as logical positivism, more generally referred to as a theory of meaning, and radical relativism, sometimes called anarchism. |
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http://www.cs.cmu.edu/People/mmaxim/oldsem/275/rationality.doc
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| | emotivism |
| | The question, "Does a transcendent God exist?" is rejected, since this does seem to assert a fact about the world that might be false, but our observation does not admit of transcendent things. | | | The main tenet of logical positivism is the VERIFICATION PRINCIPLE. | | | It seems odd for logical positivists to have a theory about such entities. |
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| | Ayer - 1: Eliminating Metaphysics |
| | So "God exists" isn't true or false; it lacks cognitive meaning and has only emotive meaning. | | | Logical positivists see empirical science as our main source of knowledge. | | | A.J. Ayer, a twentieth century British philosopher, was a major defender of logical positivism. |
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| | Philosophical Dictionary: Empedocles-Equivocation |
| | In the twentieth century, empiricism principles were extended and applied by the pragmatists and the logical positivists. | | | A logical equivalence is a tautologous statement sharing this form. | | | Relation between propositions such that one of them is strictly implied by the other(s); that is, its falsity is logically impossible, given the truth of what entails it. |
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| | Logical Positivism |
| | Those people are free to believe that and submit critiques of the pages here. | | | are of no help to a formalistic and logical approach to knowledge and epistemology. | | | Some may even believe that the logical positivists are |
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| | Rudolph Carnap |
| | What it does say is that there exists something of such and such a kind. | | | Carnap's "The Old and the New Logic" appeared in the first issue of "Erkenntnis," the short-lived journal of the Logical Positivists, and showed the full pretensions of the young logical Positivists and the kind of energy that set their movement rolling. | | | This became even more important as the existence of logical contradictions became apparent. |
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Reconsidering Logical Positivism |
| | Buy this book with The Logical Structure of the World and Pseudoprobl... | | | Michael Friedman argues that the logical positivists were radicals not by presenting a new version of empiricism (as is often thought to be the case) but rather by offering a new conception of a priori knowledge and its role in empirical knowledge. | | | Friedman challenges the so-called "received view" of logical positivism (the focus of the essays are on Carnap, Schlick, and Reichenbach). |
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| | Positivism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Positivists believe that there is little if any difference between social sciences and natural sciences, as societies operate according to laws, as does nature. | | | In Comte's view, positivism is an approach to understanding the world based on science. | | | In Poland, the period in literature after the January 1863 Uprising until the turn of the 20th century is known as the Positivist period. |
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| | LTL - Lecture ii - Comte, Ayer and logical positivism |
| | 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. | | | Building on this, the logical positivists argued that science should seek to describe the regularities of cause and effect in order to explain the world. | | | It is important to note that logical positivists had little or nothing to say about how one constructed these axioms or which of the many possible testable hypotheses that could be derived from them should be derived. |
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| | verifiability principle -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | This was certainly true in the case of the Logical Positivists, the philosophical school that has attacked metaphysical speculation most sharply in the 20th century. | | | The philosophical movement associated with the Circle has been called variously logical positivism, logical empiricism, scientific empiricism, neopositivism, and the unity of science movement. | | | Logical Positivism and Logical Empiricism have from their very beginnings been subjected to searching criticisms. |
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http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9075103?tocId=9075103
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| | Carl Hempel and A. J. Ayer |
| | Through a similar logical argument Hempel showed that The theory of falsifiability in principle can be shown to have the same kinds of problems and therefore also must be set aside. | | | The fundamental Positivist tenet of meaning, Hempel said, is that non-analytic knowledge is based on experience. | | | This means that the verification theory of meaning rules out all sentences of universal form and therefore all statements that express general laws. |
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| | The status of the formal and a priori (from Positivism) -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | The intention of the word “logical” was to insist on the distinctive nature of logical and mathematical truth. | | | Logical Positivism and Logical Empiricism > The later Positivism of Logical Empiricism > The status of the formal and a priori | | | In opposition to Mill's view, according to which even logic and pure mathematics are empirical (i.e., are justifiable or refutable by observation), the Logical Positivists—essentially following Frege and Russell—had already declared mathematics to be true… |
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| | logical positivist - definition of logical positivist by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. |
| | logical positivist - definition of logical positivist by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and Encyclopedia. | | | positivist, rationalist - someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes | | | This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional. |
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http://www.thefreedictionary.com/logical+positivist
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| | Stephen Kellert |
| | This is all a far cry from the Logical Positivism that established a Philosophical Hegemony in the English-speaking world of the 50's. | | | Perhaps this helps to reveal some of the motivation for my (limited) sympathy with the Logical Positivists: my appreciation of the universal and the context-free is firmly rooted in my particular concrete lived experience. | | | But what if the Logical Positivists weren't that bad? |
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http://altx.com/ebr/ebr4/kellert.htm
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| | Legal Positivism [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Thus, Dworkin concludes, "if we treat principles as law we must reject the positivists' first tenet, that the law of a community is distinguished from other social standards by some test in the form of a master rule" (Dworkin 1977, p. | | | In response, positivists concede that there are legal principles, but argue that their authority as law can be explained in terms of the conventions contained in the rule of recognition: | | | But many positivists regard the discretion thesis as a contingent claim that is true of some, but not all, possible legal systems. |
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| | Logical Quotes |
| | Logical Encyclopedia Links Logical History Links Logical Definition | | | Add the "Quote of the Day" to Your Site or Blog - it's Easy! |
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