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  2. Logical positivism - Wikipedia

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    Logical positivism, later called logical empiricism, and both of which together are also known as neopositivism, is a movement whose central thesis is the verification principle (also known as the verifiability criterion of meaning). [1]

  3. Vienna Circle - Wikipedia

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    Entrance to the Mathematical Seminar at the University of Vienna, Boltzmanngasse 5.Meeting place of the Vienna Circle. The Vienna Circle (German: Wiener Kreis) of logical empiricism was a group of elite philosophers and scientists drawn from the natural and social sciences, logic and mathematics who met regularly from 1924 to 1936 at the University of Vienna, chaired by Moritz Schlick.

  4. Empiricism - Wikipedia

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    Logical empiricism (also logical positivism or neopositivism) was an early 20th-century attempt to synthesize the essential ideas of British empiricism (e.g. a strong emphasis on sensory experience as the basis for knowledge) with certain insights from mathematical logic that had been developed by Gottlob Frege and Ludwig Wittgenstein.

  5. Positivism - Wikipedia

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    Logical positivism (later and more accurately called logical empiricism) is a school of philosophy that combines empiricism, the idea that observational evidence is indispensable for knowledge of the world, with a version of rationalism, the idea that our knowledge includes a component that is not derived from observation.

  6. Carl Gustav Hempel - Wikipedia

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    Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel (January 8, 1905 – November 9, 1997) was a German writer, philosopher, logician, and epistemologist.He was a major figure in logical empiricism, a 20th-century movement in the philosophy of science.

  7. Hans Reichenbach - Wikipedia

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    Hans Reichenbach (September 26, 1891 – April 9, 1953) was a leading philosopher of science, educator, and proponent of logical empiricism.He was influential in the areas of science, education, and of logical empiricism.

  8. Two Dogmas of Empiricism - Wikipedia

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    "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" is a paper by analytic philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine published in 1951. According to University of Sydney professor of philosophy Peter Godfrey-Smith , this "paper [is] sometimes regarded as the most important in all of twentieth-century philosophy ". [ 1 ]

  9. Is Logic Empirical? - Wikipedia

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    What is the epistemological status of the laws of logic? What sort of arguments are appropriate for criticising purported principles of logic? In his seminal paper "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," the logician and philosopher W. V. Quine argued that all beliefs are in principle subject to revision in the face of empirical data, including the so-called analytic propositions.