(in the philosophy of the logical positivists) the doctrine that nontautologous statements are meaningful only if it is in principle possible to establish empirically whether they are true or false
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However, the verification principle itself was neither analytic nor empirical.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
Logical positivists proclaimed the verification principle: meaningful propositions were either analytic or capable of verification or falsification by experience.