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		Definition of verification principle in English: verification principlenoun Philosophy The characteristic doctrine of logical positivism, that a statement which cannot be verified is strictly meaningless.  Example sentencesExamples -  By its own standard, then, it is a piece of gibberish; the verification principle is self-referentially inconsistent.
 -  Your verification principle needs to be explicitly confined to properties that objects possess contingently.
 -  However, perhaps the main problem with the approach is that the verification principle itself is too vague.
 -  The reason this failed is that the verification principle itself is not a tautology, nor is it verifiable.
 -  For a review of other attacks on, and adjustments to, the verification principle, see Wright 1986, 1989.
 
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