单词 | verification principle |
释义 | > as lemmasverification principle c. Philosophy. The action or process of verifying a proposition or sentence through empirical experience (associated esp. with logical positivism). Frequently attributive, esp. as verification principle. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > empiricism > [adjective] > of or relating to verificationism verification1932 verifiability1936 verificationist1940 1932 M. Schlick Gesammelte Aufsätze (1938) viii. 181 The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification. 1934 C. I. Lewis in Philos. Rev. 43 131 Suppose it maintained that no issue is meaningful unless it can be put to the test of decisive verification. 1936 A. J. Ayer Lang., Truth & Logic 12 I adopt what may be called a modified verification principle. 1937 Mind 46 348 I should have thought the first duty of any advocate of a verification theory of meaning would be to inquire how his theory itself was to be verified. 1956 J. O. Urmson Philos. Anal. vii. 107 The verification principle is not essentially a very novel or obscure doctrine except in its traditional formulation. This formulation is that the meaning of a statement is the method of its verification. 1963 W. H. Walsh Metaphysics i. 15 Logical Positivists..sought to fashion, in their celebrated Verification Principle of Meaning, a weapon which would destroy metaphysics once and for all. 1977 A. Giddens Stud. in Social & Polit. Theory i. 45 What came to be called the ‘Verification Principle’ went through numerous versions, as the inadequacy of Schlick's original formulation..became very rapidly apparent. < as lemmas |
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