logical positivism in a sentence
Examples
- Phenomenology, attempting to bracket egocentrism, appears to be more synoptic than analytic philosophy, logical atomism and logical positivism.
- They have found a resurgence also among several proponents of logical positivism, notably Otto Neurath and Carl Hempel.
- The driving force behind this tendency was the philosophy of logical positivism as espoused by the Vienna Circle.
- Mach had a direct influence on the Vienna Circle philosophers and the school of logical positivism in general.
- Deutsch blames logical positivism, the idea that science should concern itself only with objects that can be observed.
- Unfortunately, this fundamental tenet of logical positivism belongs to the family of statements that it asserts to be meaningless.
- Reichenbach insisted on calling his philosophy logical empiricism, to distinguish it from the logical positivism of the Vienna circle.
- Meanwhile, it became popular among philosophers to rehash the faults and failures of logical positivism without investigation of it.
- Before van Fraassen's The Scientific Image, some philosophers had viewed scientific anti-realism as dead, because logical positivism was dead.
- Constructive empiricism, logical positivism and instrumentalism agree that theories do not aim for truth about unobservables, which scientific realism denies.