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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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Dialogue, 1971
The mainstream of the philosophy of science in the second quarter of this century—the so-called “logical empiricist” or “logical positivist” movement—assumed that theoretical language in science is parasitic upon observation language and can be eliminated from scientific discourse by disinterpretation and formalization, or by explicit definition in or ...
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The mainstream of the philosophy of science in the second quarter of this century—the so-called “logical empiricist” or “logical positivist” movement—assumed that theoretical language in science is parasitic upon observation language and can be eliminated from scientific discourse by disinterpretation and formalization, or by explicit definition in or ...
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Logical Empiricism and Pragmatism
Philosophical Inquiries, 2018Review of Sami Pihlström, Friedrich Stadler, Niels Weidtmann (eds.), Logical Empiricism and Pragmatism(Vienna Circle Institute Yearbook Vol. 19), Springer, Cham, 2017, pp. VIII+245.
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Later Empiricism and Logical Positivism*
2005Abstract The empiricist approaches to mathematics discussed in this article belong to an era of philosophy which we can begin to see as a whole. It stretches from Kant's Critiques of the 1780s to the twentieth-century analytic movements which ended, broadly speaking, in the 1950s—in and largely as a result of the work of Quine.
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Confirmation, Probability, and Logical Empiricism
2007Confirmation 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
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How Empirical is Contemporary Logical Empiricism?
Philosophia, 1975One of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel’s most admirable virtues was his ability to discern, and readiness to remark on, the nakedness of a naked emperor even when he himself had previously been one of the crowd that thought the emperor decently clad. My tribute to him will take the form of an attempt at an exercise of just this kind. If my own present venture into
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Principles of Logical Empiricism
1976In criticizing the logic of philosophical realism, philosophers have gradu: ally developed positions whose interrelations may be described as follows.
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