Logical Positivism 20th Century History of Philosophy

Logical Positivism 20th Century History of Philosophy

Trend of philosophical thought, also often called "neopositivism" and "logical empiricism," which began in the 1920s with the Vienna Circle. Its key tenet was the verifiability criterion, according to which no statement has any meaning beyond the manner in which it is verified.

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Columbia Encyclopedia: Logical Positivism - A concise description of this movement.
Neopositivism: Linguistic Philosophy and Critical Rationalism - A section from Andras Gedo's work Crisis Consciousness in Contemporary Philosophy.
PhilosophyPages: Logical Positivism - Concise survey of this school and the related doctrine of "ethical emotivism."
Wikipedia: Logical Positivism - Entry from the openly-edited encyclopedia.
PhilSci Archive: Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism - Collection of online papers in Microsoft Word format, with abstracts in HTML.
FOLDOC: Logical Positivism - Entry from this philosophical database, including an excerpt from The Ism Book.

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