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Definition of Logical positivist
1. Noun. Someone who maintains that any statement that cannot be verified empirically is meaningless.
Definition of Logical positivist
1. Noun. (philosophy) An adherent of the logical positivism school of philosophy ¹
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Logical Positivist
Literary usage of Logical positivist
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Conceptions of Social Inquiry by J. J. Snyman (1993)
"strictly logical reconstruction of the relation between the logical positivist
scientific conception on the one hand, and the scientific conceptions of ..."
2. Calcutta Review by University of Calcutta (1921)
"I hope to maintain in this paper that the empirical criterion of meaning of the
logical positivist, / r., the criterion of emp:rical veri- fiability or ..."
3. Advanced Methodological Issues in Culturally Competent Evaluation for edited by Ada-Helen Bayer, Frances L. Brisbane, Amelie Ramirez, Leonard G. Epstein (1998)
"Taking a traditional and logical positivist scientific position, Thorndike argued
that there are two basic premises by which science operates. ..."
4. Managing Natural Resources for Sustainable Livelihoods: Uniting Science and by Barry Pound (2003)
"In this case, reproductive learning most closely mirrors the 'logical positivist' (or
empiricist) research paradigm, in which research seeks the ..."
5. Basic Concepts in the Methodology of the Social Sciences by Johann Mouton, H. C. Marais (1988)
"The assumption that genuine knowledge must necessarily be certain and incorrigible
knowledge is also the basis of the more recent logical positivist ideal ..."
6. De Stijl Continued: The Journal Structure (1958-1964) an Artists' Debate by Jonneke Jobse (2005)
"In his view, twentieth-century logical-positivist thinking deprived modern man
of the opportunity to discover new truths, and he believed that the classic ..."
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