单词 | logical positivism |
释义 | > as lemmaslogical positivism logical positivism n. the name given to the theories and doctrines of philosophers active in Vienna in the early 1930s (the Vienna Circle), which were aimed at evolving in the language of philosophy formal methods for the verification of empirical questions similar to those of the mathematical sciences, and which therefore eliminated metaphysical and other more speculative questions as being logically ill-founded. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [noun] > logical positivism positivism1846 logical positivism1931 1931 A. E. Blumberg & H. Feigl in Jrnl. Philos. 28 281 To facilitate criticism and forestall even more unfortunate attempts at labelling this aspect of contemporary European philosophy, we shall employ the term ‘logical positivism’. 1934 Philos. Rev. 43 125 The logical positivism of the Vienna Circle..is based..upon this consideration of empirical meaning. 1968 M. Black Labyrinth of Lang. vi. 147 Logical Positivism has seen its best days. < as lemmas |
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