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Single Idea 2971
[filed under theme 19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 5. Meaning as Verification
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Full Idea
If the logical positivists established anything it is that there is no way of demarcating science from metaphysics.
Gist of Idea
Perhaps logical positivism showed that there is no dividing line between science and metaphysics
Source
Michael Lockwood (Mind, Brain and the Quantum [1989], p.313)
Book Ref
Lockwood,Michael: 'Mind,Brain and the Quantum:The Compound 'I'' [Blackwell 1991], p.313
A Reaction
So many problems arise for philosophers because of the passion for 'demarcating' things. Close study, experiments, statistics and measurements occur in every walk of life.
The
36 ideas
with the same theme
[meaning is tied to observation and verification]:
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14906
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Non-positivist verificationism says only take a hypothesis seriously if it is scientifically based and testable
[Ladyman/Ross on Peirce]
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6427
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Unverifiable propositions about the remote past are still either true or false
[Russell]
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13468
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Russell started philosophy of language, by declaring some plausible sentences to be meaningless
[Russell, by Hart,WD]
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5388
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Every understood proposition is composed of constituents with which we are acquainted
[Russell]
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10117
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Intuitonists in mathematics worried about unjustified assertion, as well as contradiction
[Brouwer, by George/Velleman]
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18728
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The meaning of a proposition is the mode of its verification
[Wittgenstein]
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4150
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Asking about verification is only one way of asking about the meaning of a proposition
[Wittgenstein]
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18282
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You can't believe it if you can't imagine a verification for it
[Wittgenstein]
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7086
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Good philosophy asserts science, and demonstrates the meaninglessness of metaphysics
[Wittgenstein]
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5164
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A statement is meaningful if observation statements can be deduced from it
[Ayer]
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5165
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Directly verifiable statements must entail at least one new observation statement
[Ayer]
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5166
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The principle of verification is not an empirical hypothesis, but a definition
[Ayer]
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5181
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A sentence is factually significant to someone if they know how to verify its proposition
[Ayer]
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5184
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Factual propositions imply (in conjunction with a few other premises) possible experiences
[Ayer]
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5186
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Tautologies and empirical hypotheses form the entire class of significant propositions
[Ayer]
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8181
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A justificationist theory of meaning leads to the rejection of classical logic
[Dummett]
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8182
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Verificationism could be realist, if we imagined the verification by a superhuman power
[Dummett]
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8183
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If truths about the past depend on memories and current evidence, the past will change
[Dummett]
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8193
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Verification is not an individual but a collective activity
[Dummett]
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4564
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I can meaningfully speculate that humans may have experiences currently impossible for us
[Cooper,DE]
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4565
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The verification principle itself seems neither analytic nor verifiable
[Cooper,DE]
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2744
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Verificationism (the 'verification principle') is an earlier form of anti-realism
[Dancy,J]
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2760
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Logical positivism implies foundationalism, by dividing weak from strong verifications
[Dancy,J]
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13410
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Verificationism about concepts means you can't deny a theory, because you can't have the concept
[Papineau]
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3007
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Many different verification procedures can reach 'star', but it only has one semantic value
[Fodor]
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7883
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Verificationists tend to infer indefinite answers from undecidable questions
[Papineau]
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13882
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A milder claim is that understanding requires some evidence of that understanding
[Wright,C]
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4999
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For behaviourists language is just a special kind of behaviour
[Kirk,R]
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2971
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Perhaps logical positivism showed that there is no dividing line between science and metaphysics
[Lockwood]
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3181
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A one hour gap in time might be indirectly verified, but then almost anything could be
[Rey]
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10060
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Logical positivists adopted an If-thenist version of logicism about numbers
[Musgrave]
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7766
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Meaning must be known before we can consider verification
[Lycan]
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4710
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Verificationism was attacked by the deniers of the analytic-synthetic distinction, needed for 'facts'
[O'Grady]
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9134
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The negation of a meaningful sentence must itself be meaningful
[Sorensen]
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5748
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We accept unverifiable propositions because of simplicity, utility, explanation and plausibility
[Melia]
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17731
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Verificationism is better if it says meaningfulness needs concepts grounded in the senses
[Jenkins]
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