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Logical Positivism Core Tenets
- Logical positivism emphasizes verifiable truths, aligning with empiricism.
- It prioritizes sensory data and logical reasoning, similar to Kant's analytic and synthetic propositions.
Verifiability and Philosophy
- Logical positivists focus on verifiable knowledge, rejecting unverifiable speculation.
- They consider ethical, aesthetic, and metaphysical claims outside philosophy's scope.
Verification Principle
- Logical positivism's verification principle states a claim's value lies in its verifiability.
- If a proposition cannot be verified empirically or logically, it is meaningless.