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Confirmation, Probability, and Logical Empiricism
, 2007 Confirmation and probability were the objects of much attention on the part of logical empiricists. Their concern with confirmation imprints the debate on cognitive significance. Once the problems raised by general sentences (laws of nature) and predictive statements showed the inadequacy of the verification principle, and a more liberalized version of
GALAVOTTI, MARIA CARLA
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Russell and Logical Empiricism
Abstract This chapter examines Bertrand Russell’s evolving relationship with logical empiricism, particularly his interactions with figures like Neurath, Carnap, Schlick, and Reichenbach. Initially sympathetic to logical empiricism, Russell critiques its philosophical approach, especially its rejection of metaphysics and reliance on ...Christopher Pincock
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Realistic Claims in Logical Empiricism [PDF]
European Studies in Philosophy of Science, 2015 Logical empiricism is commonly seen as a counter-position to scientific realism. In the present paper it is shown that there indeed existed a realist faction within the logical ...
Matthias Neuber
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On the Empiricism of Logical Empiricism
Geltung - Revista de Estudos das Origens da Filosofia Contemporânea, 2021This paper warns against misunderstanding the logical empiricists’ take on the concepts of experience and empiricism. Far from expressing traditionalist way-of-ideas conceptions, these concepts were themselves rethought and refashioned to accord with their overall aim of making contemporary philosophy of science fit for purpose. To
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Einstein and logical empiricism
2021The logical empiricists played key roles in the battle over the philosophical interpretation of the relativity theory. This chapter looks not only at Schlick’s defense of Einstein, but also at an input of Schlick’s that shaped Einstein’s view, namely his “point-coincidence argument.” Initially, the “hole argument” prevented a persuasive interpretation ...
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Logic, Quantum Logic and Empiricism
Philosophy of Science, 1982This paper treats some of the issues raised by Putnam's discussion of, and claims for, quantum logic, specifically: that its proposal is a response to experimental difficulties; that it is a reasonable replacement for classical logic because its connectives retain their classical meanings, and because it can be derived as a logic of tests.
John Bell, Michael Hallett
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Mind, 1990
Quine's 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism'" proclaimed a more radical empiricism than anything before it. Beginning from the observation that 'our statements about the external world face the tribunal of experience not individually but only as a corporate body', Quine inferred that since our theories of the world are tested only as wholes there will always be ...
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Quine's 'Two Dogmas of Empiricism'" proclaimed a more radical empiricism than anything before it. Beginning from the observation that 'our statements about the external world face the tribunal of experience not individually but only as a corporate body', Quine inferred that since our theories of the world are tested only as wholes there will always be ...
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2016
AbstractAt different times logical empiricists engaged one another in debates about the proper problems and methods for philosophy or its successor discipline. The most pressing problem focused on how to coordinate the abstract statements of the sciences with what can be experienced and tested. While the new logic was the main tool for coordination for
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AbstractAt different times logical empiricists engaged one another in debates about the proper problems and methods for philosophy or its successor discipline. The most pressing problem focused on how to coordinate the abstract statements of the sciences with what can be experienced and tested. While the new logic was the main tool for coordination for
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