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Philosophical doctrine
Verificationism, also known as the verification principle or the verifiability criterion of meaning, is a doctrine in philosophy which asserts that a
Verificationism
Movement in Western philosophy
reason, such as scientific hypothesis, cognitively meaningless under verificationism. This would pose significant problems for the logical positivist program
Logical_positivism
Conformity to reality
raising the question of whether verificationism requires a third truth value or truth-value gaps. Verificationism is sometimes grouped with coherentism
Truth
Philanthropy conception of meaning
expression, in such cases, is ambiguous. W. V. O. Quine attacked both verificationism and the very notion of meaning in his famous essay, "Two Dogmas of
Meaning_(philosophy)
Study of the methods of philosophy
added. The method of verificationism consists in understanding sentences by analyzing their characteristic conditions of verification, i.e. by determining
Philosophical_methodology
Proposed explanation for an observation, phenomenon, or scientific problem
supplemented it with other criteria, such as verifiability (e.g., verificationism) or coherence (e.g., confirmation holism). The scientific method involves
Hypothesis
Philosophical term introduced by Friedrich Waismann
particularly Section 80. The concept has become important in criticism of verificationism and has also found use in legal philosophy. In legal philosophy, open
Open_texture
Position in the philosophy of science
terming themselves logical positivists while pursuing a program termed verificationism. Logical positivists aimed not to instruct or restrict scientists,
Instrumentalism
Philosophical question of how to distinguish between science and non-science
"metaphysics" (see the verifiability theory of meaning also known as verificationism). According to A. J. Ayer, metaphysicians make statements which claim
Demarcation_problem
Philosophical theory
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Holism
Academic disciplines that study society and culture
reason. Magical thinking creates explanations not available for empirical verification. Stories or myths are narratives being both didactic and entertaining
Humanities
Process whereby a proposition can be verified after death
both be dead and nothing will be verified. This acts as a response to Verificationism. Under Hick's analogy claims about the afterlife are verifiable in
Eschatological_verification
Awareness of facts, or competency
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Knowledge
Leader of the Soviet Union from 1922 to 1924
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Vladimir_Lenin
Idea that the question of the existence of God is meaningless
God Epistemology Ietsism Loki's Wager Pantheism Scientific method Verificationism Agnosticism Lindsay 2015, p. 73 Conifer, Theological Noncognitivism:
Ignosticism
Metatheoretical stance on scientific inquiry
He advanced falsification in lieu of the logical positivist idea of verificationism. Falsificationism argues that it is impossible to verify that beliefs
Postpositivism
1967 book by Alvin Plantinga
God, including the problem of evil, the paradox of omnipotence, and verificationism. Finally, in Part III, he explores various analogies between belief
God_and_Other_Minds
Exclusive reliance on quantitative observations in decision-making
of a construct with its measurement Truth – Conformity to reality Verificationism – Philosophical doctrine Verisimilitude – Resemblance to reality Fischer
McNamara_fallacy
Attempts to analyze the concept of truth
theories, and pragmatic theories. Verificationism is based on verifying propositions. The distinctive claim of verificationism is that the result of such verifications
Epistemic_theories_of_truth
socialism Vaibhashika – Value pluralism – Value theory – Vedanta – Verificationism – Verism – Vienna Circle – Virtue ethics – Vishishtadvaita – Vitalism
List_of_philosophies
English theoretical physicist (1942–2018)
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Stephen_Hawking
Cultural and artistic movement
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Modernism
American philosopher and logician (1908–2000)
logical positivism. Although Quine is not normally associated with verificationism, some philosophers believe the tenet is not incompatible with his general
Willard_Van_Orman_Quine
Austrian physicist, philosopher and university educator (1838–1916)
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Ernst_Mach
Theory that truth means correspondence with reality
Pragmatic maxim Reproducibility Scientific method Testability Truthmaker Verificationism Hanna and Harrison (2004), ch. 1, p. 21, quotation: "The assessment
Correspondence theory of truth
Correspondence_theory_of_truth
Study of meaning in language
used to confirm or disconfirm them using observation. According to verificationism, sentences that can neither be verified nor falsified are meaningless
Semantics
Traditional, still commonplace view of scientific method to develop scientific theories
it for a new version of verificationism. Instead, Popper's approach, falsificationism, fundamentally refuted verificationism. Popper's demarcation principle
Inductivism
Idea that knowledge comes only/mainly from sensory experience
observes such and such". The central theses of logical positivism (verificationism, the analytic–synthetic distinction, reductionism, etc.) came under
Empiricism
Branch of philosophy
logical behaviorism) was developed. This is characterized by a strong verificationism, which generally considers unverifiable statements about interior mental
Philosophy_of_mind
Empiricist philosophical theory
work The Logic of Scientific Discovery, Karl Popper argued against verificationism. A statement such as "all swans are white" cannot actually be empirically
Positivism
View that science is the best/only truth
evidence supports." Repeating common criticisms of logical positivism and verificationism, philosopher of religion Keith Ward has said that scientism is philosophically
Scientism
Property of a statement that can be logically contradicted
problems, that of meaning and that of demarcation, and had proposed in verificationism a single solution to both: a statement that could not be verified was
Falsifiability
German philosopher, sociologist, and theorist (1903–1969)
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Theodor_W._Adorno
Austrian–British philosopher of science (1902–1994)
Gustav Hempel. Hempel came to acknowledge that logical positivism's verificationism was untenable, but argued that falsificationism was equally untenable
Karl_Popper
Unscientific claims presented as scientific
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Pseudoscience
Danish physicist (1885–1962)
agree that this is a misunderstanding of Bohr as he never argued for verificationism or for the idea that the subject had a direct impact on the outcome
Niels_Bohr
German sociologist, jurist, and political economist (1864–1920)
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Max_Weber
Idea that refutes itself
the discussion by Alston, William P. (2003). "Religious language and verificationism". In Moser, Paul K.; Copan, Paul (eds.). The Rationality of Theism
Self-refuting_idea
Philosophical tradition
philosophical pragmatism. Additionally, forms of empiricism, fallibilism, verificationism, and a Quinean naturalist metaphilosophy are all commonly elements
Pragmatism
Philosophical concept
Belief Epistemology Information Inquiry Knowledge Pragmatism Pragmaticism Pragmatic maxim Reproducibility Scientific method Testability Verificationism
Redundancy_theory_of_truth
Scientific methodology
which lasted until 1965, are neopositivism, sharing the quest of verificationism. Neopositivists led emergence of the philosophy subdiscipline philosophy
Deductive-nomological_model
German–American philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist (1898–1979)
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Herbert_Marcuse
Branch of science that studies society and its relationships
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Social_science
Canadian philosopher (born 1961)
Routledge. ISBN 978-0-203-16228-6. OCLC 179161004. Misak, Cheryl J. (1995) Verificationism: Its History and Prospects (Philosophical Issues in Science). Routledge
Cheryl_Misak
Philosophical and social theory critical of traditional humanism
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Antihumanism
American philosopher (1922–1996)
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Thomas_Kuhn
French philosopher
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Gaston_Bachelard
Approach to social philosophy
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Critical_theory
20th-century tradition of Western philosophy
aesthetics as cognitively meaningless. The logical positivists saw their verificationism as a recapitulation of a quote by David Hume, the closing lines from
Analytic_philosophy
Epistemology without sure premises
Postmodern philosophy Pragmatism Relativism Reliabilism Skepticism Verificationism J. Childers/G. Hentzi, The Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and
Anti-foundationalism
Intellectual current and methodological approach in the social science
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Structuralism
German social philosopher (1929–2026)
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Jürgen_Habermas
American philosopher (born 1941)
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Bas_van_Fraassen
Two geometries based on axioms closely related to those specifying Euclidean geometry
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Non-Euclidean_geometry
Branch of philosophy
as meaningful, rejects metaphysical interpretations, and embraces verificationism (a set of theories of knowledge that combines logicism, empiricism
Philosophy_of_science
French philosopher, mathematician and sociologist (1798–1857)
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Auguste_Comte
Metaphysical view that physical objects only exist as sensory stimuli
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Phenomenalism
1962 book by Thomas S. Kuhn
is scientific and that which is unscientific. Kuhn also addresses verificationism, a philosophical movement that emerged in the 1920s among logical positivists
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
The_Structure_of_Scientific_Revolutions
Thought experiment in philosophy
umbrella term". According to verificationism, for words to have meaning, their use must be open to public verification. Since it is assumed that we can
Philosophical_zombie
Empiricism". However, Michael Dummett has advocated a modified form of verificationism since the 1970s. In this version, the comprehension (and hence meaning)
Philosophy_of_language
English philosopher (1910–1989)
(1936), Ayer presents the verification principle as the only valid basis for philosophy. Unless logical or empirical verification is possible, statements
A._J._Ayer
French sociologist (1858–1917)
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Émile_Durkheim
Hungarian philosopher and critic (1885–1971)
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György_Lukács
Theoretical stance in social science
relationships that are not as "ahistorical, invariant, or generalizable"[failed verification] as those pursued by natural scientists. The interaction between theory
Antipositivism
Method of logical reasoning
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Inductive_reasoning
Philosophy in recent times
characteristic of pragmatism include instrumentalism, radical empiricism, verificationism, conceptual relativity, and fallibilism.[citation needed] There is
Modern_philosophy
Philosophy of the Western world
Another former participant in the Circle was Karl Popper. He argued that verificationism was logically incoherent, promoting instead falsificationism as the
Western_philosophy
Philosophical concept
accepted, this was not always so. Influenced by L.E.J Brouwer and verificationism in part, Wittgenstein (April 26, 1889 – April 29, 1951) made an impassioned
Infinity_(philosophy)
Russian physician, philosopher, and revolutionary (1873–1928)
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Alexander_Bogdanov
Philosophical analogy about knowledge
(3): 130–131. doi:10.5840/intstudphil199022349. Misak, Cheryl (1995). Verificationism: Its History and Prospects. Philosophical Issues in Science. London;
Neurath's_boat
Material supporting an assertion
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Evidence
Part of the process of research design
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Operationalization
1936 book by A. J. Ayer
Jules Ayer, in which the author defines, explains, and argues for the verification principle of logical positivism, sometimes referred to as the criterion
Language,_Truth,_and_Logic
Australian philosopher
Johnston, Mark (1993). "Objectivity refigured: Pragmatism without verificationism". philpapers.org. Retrieved 5 August 2023. Johnston, Mark (1992). "How
Mark_Johnston_(philosopher)
Question of whether inductive reasoning leads to definitive knowledge
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Problem_of_induction
Branch of philosophy
60s, the verification principle and falsifiability as a criterion for meaning are no longer as widely held. The main problem with verificationism is that
Philosophy_of_religion
American mathematician and philosopher (1926–2016)
accept metaphysical realism in a broader sense, rejecting all forms of verificationism and all talk of our "making" the world. In the philosophy of perception
Hilary_Putnam
Topics referred to by the same term
Sophisticated falsificationism Falsifiability Falsification (disambiguation) Verificationism This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Falsificationism
Falsificationism
School of thought of philosophy of law and jurisprudence
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Legal_positivism
1944 book by Karl Popper
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The_Poverty_of_Historicism
Form of research
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Qualitative_research
English-American philosopher (born 1954)
1007/BF00247710. JSTOR 30226312. S2CID 21407826. — (1 July 1985). "Verificationism and the manifestations of meaning". Aristotelian Society, Supplementary
Kwame_Anthony_Appiah
Corpus of philosophers of the United States
metaphysics, and ontology, are meaningless (this theory is called verificationism). With the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party, many positivists
American_philosophy
Social science conception of understanding and relation
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Verstehen
Ancient Greek word for a type of wisdom or intelligence
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Phronesis
Concept in epistemology
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Justification_(epistemology)
Austrian economist, philosopher and sociologist (1882–1945)
not to single sentences. Such ideas profoundly shaped the holistic verificationism of Willard Van Orman Quine. Quine's book Word and Object (p. 3f) made
Otto_Neurath
Austrian philosopher of science (1924–1994)
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Paul_Feyerabend
South African philosopher and academic (born 1942)
Cuadernos de Crítica 37 (1984) "Truth Conditions, Bivalence, and Verificationism", ibid, pp. 42–66 "On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name", Mind
John_McDowell
Argentine-Canadian philosopher (1919–2020)
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Mario_Bunge
American philosopher (1883–1964)
that valuation is a form of empirical cognition. He disagreed with verificationism and preferred the term empirical meaning, claiming that pragmatism
C._I._Lewis
English historian & activist (1924–1993)
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E._P._Thompson
Sociological theory of society
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Structural_functionalism
German-Swiss philosopher (1843–1896)
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Richard_Avenarius
of verificationism is that the result of such verifications is, by definition, truth. That is, truth is reducible to this process of verification. vitalism
Glossary_of_philosophy
American economist (born 1942)
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Deirdre_McCloskey
1923 book by György Lukács
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History and Class Consciousness
History_and_Class_Consciousness
German philosopher (1833–1911)
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Wilhelm_Dilthey
1924–1936 group of philosophers and scientists
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Vienna_Circle
Political philosophy
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