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Meaning of "logical positivist" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LOGICAL POSITIVIST

logical positivist  [ˈlɒdʒɪkəl ˈpɒzɪtɪvˌɪst] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LOGICAL POSITIVIST

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Logical positivist is a noun.
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WHAT DOES LOGICAL POSITIVIST MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Logical positivism

Logical positivism and logical empiricism, which together formed neopositivism, was a movement in Western philosophy that embraced verificationism, an approach that sought to legitimize philosophical discourse on a basis shared with the best examples of empirical sciences. In this theory of knowledge, only statements verifiable either logically or empirically would be cognitively meaningful. Seeking to convert philosophy to this new scientific philosophy was aimed to prevent confusion rooted in unclear language and unverifiable claims. The Berlin Circle and the Vienna Circle propounded logical positivism starting in the late 1920s. Interpreting Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophy of language, logical positivists identified a verifiability principle or criterion of cognitive meaningfulness. From Bertrand Russell's logicism they sought reduction of mathematics to logic as well as Russell's logical atomism, Ernst Mach's phenomenalism—whereby the mind knows only actual or potential sensory experience, which is the content of all sciences, whether physics or psychology—and Percy Bridgman's musings that others proclaimed as operationalism.

Definition of logical positivist in the English dictionary

The definition of logical positivist in the dictionary is an exponent or follower of logical positivism.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LOGICAL POSITIVIST


archaist
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atheist
ˈeɪθɪˌɪst
fideist
ˈfiːdeɪˌɪst
intransigentist
ɪnˈtrænsɪdʒəntˌɪst
Lamaist
ˈlɑːməˌɪst
municipalist
mjuːˈnɪsɪpəlˌɪst
pantheist
ˈpænθɪˌɪst
physicalist
ˈfɪzɪkəlˌɪst
possibilist
ˈpɒsɪbəlˌɪst
speciesist
ˈspiːʃiːzˌɪst
tritheist
ˈtraɪθiːˌɪst

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LOGICAL POSITIVIST

logic level
logic programming
logic-chopping
logical
logical atomism
logical consequence
logical constant
logical form
logical operation
logical positivism
logical sum
logical truth
logicality
logically
logically possible
logicalness
logician
logicism
logicist
logicize

WORDS THAT END LIKE LOGICAL POSITIVIST

activist
archivist
collectivist
constructivist
detectivist
exclusivist
hacktivist
human rights activist
lactivist
Lagerkvist
nativist
negativist
objectivist
peace activist
positivist
primitivist
progressivist
recidivist
relativist
slacktivist
subjectivist

Synonyms and antonyms of logical positivist in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translator English - Chinese

逻辑实证主义
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

positivista lógico
570 millions of speakers

English

logical positivist
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

तार्किक प्रत्यक्षवादी
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

الوضعية المنطقية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

логического позитивизма
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

positivismo lógico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

যৌক্তিক ইতিবাচক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

positiviste logique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Positivis logik
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

logischen Positivisten
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

論理実証主義
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

논리 실증주의
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Positivis logis
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

thực chứng logic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தர்க்கரீதியான பாசிடிவிஸ்ட்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

तार्किक धर्माभिमानी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Mantıksal pozitivist
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

positivista logico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

logiczne pozytywistyczna
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

логічного позитивізму
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

pozitivistă logic
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

λογική θετικιστική
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

logiese positivistiese
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

logiska positivistiska
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

logisk positivist
5 millions of speakers

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOGICAL POSITIVIST»

Discover the use of logical positivist in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to logical positivist and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Philosophy: A Text with Readings
How could a logical positivist respond to your argument? 4. Some people charge that the logical positivist's position is inconsistent and selfContradictory. Why do they say this? Do you agree? 5. What would you say is the primary contribution ...
Manuel Velasquez, 2013
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Perspectives on Philosophy of Science in Nursing: An ...
While dominating thought and research in nursing, the logical positivist method also disallowed so-called nonscientific approaches to research and theory development. Most modern nursing contemporaries learned a single way of doing ...
E. Carol Polifroni, Marylouise Welch, 1999
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Behaviorism and Logical Positivism: A Reassessment of the ...
15 In other words, the logical positivist framework was taken to be a neutral and, except for matters of detail, necessary perspective from which to judge theories. The neobehaviorists were all being forced into the same mold, despite the fact ...
Laurence D. Smith, 1986
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Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, an Empiricist Approach
It seems that the logical positivist/empiricist approach has great difficulty in recognizing such boundaries, thus promoting a belief in the completeness of quantum mechanics (cf. section 4.2.1). By not a priori restricting discourse on microscopic ...
W.M. de Muynck, 2002
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Handbook of Organization Theory and Management: The ...
This chapter explores the rise of the logical positivist perspective in the field of public administration, its heyday, and finally its diminution. Epistemology and important epistemological and philosophical antecedents to logical positivism, such as ...
Thomas D. Lynch, Peter L. Cruise, 2005
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Handbook of Organizational Theory and Management: The ...
Although over 50 years and millions of critiquing words have passed since the start of the logical positivist revolution, its after effects-like lingering radiation from an atomic bomb-resonate in the discipline today as the twenty-first century dawns .
Thomas D. Lynch, 1997
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Psychology, Religion, and Spirituality
In the original logical positivist formulation, verification was done empirically, by comparing “atomic” scientific statements with data (Wittgenstein, 1975; Russell, 1966). In this view, truth takes the form of representational propositions about the  ...
James M. Nelson, 2009
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Philosophy of Language
We shallsee ina moment thatthere arestrong reasons for thinking that, though attractive, the logical positivist accountofa priori truth is deeply flawed. Before that , however, it might be worthwhile to pause for asecond to reflecton the implications ...
Alex Miller, 2007
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Lakatos: An Introduction
(Note that on most logical positivist views of the matter, an inductive reasoning pattern is formal in the sense that the persuasiveness of the argument lies solely in its form: 'every F so far has been G, so the next F will probably be G' - it makes  ...
Brendan Larvor, 2013
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Formal Axiology and Its Critics.
The axiological positivist thus agrees with the logical positivist in his critical view of philosophy, but disagrees with his negative conclusion. The traditional philosophical disciplines are indeed vague and meaningless and ought to be regarded ...
Rem Blanchard Edwards, 1995

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LOGICAL POSITIVIST»

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R-E-S-P-E-C-T, Find Out What It Means to Scalia
Like the philosophies of W.V.O. Quine, Wilfrid Sellars, and the later Wittgenstein, Austin's philosophy was a rejoinder to the logical positivist ... «Slate Magazine, Jun 15»
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Richard Dawkins, on brains and brainwashing
... of his parents – a Catholic child, an Orthodox child, a Muslim child,” while no one spoke of an “existentialist child” or a “logical positivist child”. «The Sofia Globe, May 15»
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Opinion: Why would anyone think a rigorous clinical trial is a bad …
What if this logical positivist assumption is (dare I say it ?) WRONG !! But it is wrong. This is the pillar of "scientism", a false assumption that real ... «Montreal Gazette, Feb 15»
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Collecting: I've got it covered
In his waspish tone, Vidal describes the “splendid comedy” of Bobby and his wife Ethel receiving the logical positivist philosopher AJ Ayer as ... «Financial Times, Dec 14»
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Natural Selection And Homeopathy
... accepting what science has to say based on the logical positivist prejudice that ... Anything that goes contrary to the logical positivist fascistic ... «Science 2.0, Nov 14»
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Persistent Defiance
Ironically, among the academics in Vienna it was the ill-fated Moritz Schlick, the logical positivist (and hence philosophical opponent of von ... «First Things, Nov 14»
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“Interstellar” solves climate change by incoherently jetting into space
... a meaningless proposition to begin with (at least to a logical positivist). The irony is not that her choice of planet happened to be the right one, ... «Grist, Nov 14»
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Ehrman Errant
... on its living up to logical positivist standards that would have meant nothing to Moses, David, Luke, or Paul. In Can We Still Believe the Bible? «First Things, Oct 14»
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Baruch de Spinoza: Excommunication from the Jewish community
Logical positivist - The logical positivist approach to the verification of ... Since the logical positivist verifiability criterion cannot prove the answer ... «The People's Voice, Jul 14»
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Of course Lara Logan is not a victim of sexism and why am I even …
Were I to be a logical positivist, I would be looking strictly for descriptions involving those sensual intangibles… but, since the article also ... «Capitol Correspondent, May 14»

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