Full Idea
The verificationist sin is to infer an indefiniteness of answers immediately from the undecidability of questions.
Gist of Idea
Verificationists tend to infer indefinite answers from undecidable questions
Source
David Papineau (Thinking about Consciousness [2002], 7.02)
Book Reference
Papineau,David: 'Thinking about Consciousness' [OUP 2004], p.178
A Reaction
This remark is aimed at Dummett's anti-realism. It strikes me that what is being described really is a sort of arrogance, in believing that reality can somehow be inferred from studying the epistemic apparatus of a few miserable little mammals.