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2195: 477:. Popper noticed that Einstein sought out data that would disprove his theories. He made predictions about future instances based upon the past, and then tried to learn more to test the validity of his hypothesis. Freud, on the other hand, selected data that could be shaped to fit his theories, and his theories were crafted to explain the past, not the future. For Popper, this clarified a key difference between science and pseudoscience. 2205: 296:) would not require conclusive verification (thus accommodating for universal generalizations) but allow for partial testability to establish "degrees of confirmation" on a probabilistic basis. Carnap never succeeded in formalizing his thesis despite employing abundant logical and mathematical tools for this purpose. In all of Carnap's formulations, a universal law's degree of confirmation is zero. 521:, whereby mental phenomena resolve to the material or physical and philosophical questions largely resolve to ones of language and meaning. In 1977, Ayer recognized that the verification principle was not widely accepted but acknowledged that it still held relevance and was being utilised. "The attitude of many philosophers reminds me of the relationship between Pip and Magwitch in 317:. This system espoused conclusive verification, yet accommodated for probabilistic inclusion where verifiability is inconclusive. Ayer also distinguished between practical and theoretical verifiability. Under the latter, propositions that cannot be verified in practice would still be meaningful if they can be verified in principle. 480:
Though falsificationism has been criticized extensively by philosophers for methodological shortcomings in its intended demarcation of science, Popper has been the only philosopher of science often praised by many scientists. Despite its problems, Popper's criterion was to ensure that scientific
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led a "conservative wing" that maintained a strict verificationism. Whereas Schlick sought to reduce universal generalizations to frameworks of 'rules' from which verifiable statements can be derived, Hahn argued that the verifiability criterion should accommodate to less-than-conclusive
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Notably, the falsifiability criterion would allow for scientific hypotheses (expressed as universal generalizations) to be held as provisionally true until proven false by observation, whereas under verificationism they would be disqualified immediately as meaningless.
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Verificationism allows existential statements, like “unicorns exist”, to be classified as scientifically meaningful, despite the fact that there is no way of definitively showing that they are false and one could possibly find one somewhere not yet
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Verificationism rejects universal generalizations, like "all swans are white," as meaningless. Popper argues that while universal statements cannot be verified, they can be proven false, a foundation on which he was to propose his criterion of
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in the 1930s, was asked what he saw as its main defects, and answered that "nearly all of it was false". However, he soon said that he still held "the same general approach", referring to empiricism and
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that act as an interpretative framework for those observations. Those subscribed to different theories might thus report radically different observations, even when they observe the same phenomena.
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In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, the general concept of verification criteria—in forms that differed from those of the logical positivists—was defended by
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Hahn, Hans, 1933, Logik, Mathematik und Naturerkennen, Wien: Gerold, transl. "Logic, Mathematics, and Knowledge of Nature", in B. McGuiness 1987, pp. 24–45.
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led a faction seeking to make the verifiability criterion more inclusive, beginning a movement they referred to as the "liberalization of empiricism".
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Verificationism is meaningless by virtue of its own criterion because it cannot be empirically verified. Thus the concept is
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are empirically unverifiable, such that, under verificationism, vast domains of science and reason, such as scientific
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conventions. This would be pivotal to verificationism, in that logic and mathematics would otherwise be classified as
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Popper regarded scientific hypotheses to be never completely verifiable, as well as not "confirmable" under
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that emerged in the 1920s by philosophers who sought to unify philosophy and science under a common
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Although earlier philosophical principles which aim to ground scientific theory in some verifiable
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whereby philosophical discourse would be, in their perception, as authoritative and meaningful as
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Logical positivists garnered the verifiability criterion of cognitive meaningfulness from
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Despite Hume's radical empiricism, set forth near 1740, Hume was also committed to
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In formulating his criterion, Popper was informed by the contrasting approaches of
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Miran Epstein, ch 2 "Introduction to philosophy of science", in Clive Seale, ed,
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In a 1976 TV interview, A. J. Ayer, who had introduced logical positivism to the
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in that they reduced ultimately to circular reasoning. This served to uproot the
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recognized quickly that the verifiability criterion was too stringent. Notably,
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verifiability. Among other ideas espoused by the liberalization movement were
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explained that direct observations are never truly neutral in that they are
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Chapman, S. (2009). Logical positivism. In S. Chapman, & C. Routledge,
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Other philosophers also voiced their own criticisms of verificationism:
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Moritz Schlick, 1931, "Die KausalitÀt in der gegenwÀrtigen Physik",
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Oswald Hanfling, ch 5 "Logical positivism", in Stuart G Shanker,
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demarcate scientific statements from non-scientific statements
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knowledge and defined as "meaningless" under verificationism.
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of the latter two—they borrowed some perspectives from
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and logical positivists adopted Popper's criterion of
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in a way that would reduce mathematics and logic to
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2523: 2519: 2512: 2509: 2506: 2503: 2502: 2500: 2498: 2493: 2488: 2482: 2479: 2477: 2474: 2472: 2469: 2467: 2464: 2462: 2459: 2457: 2456:Human science 2454: 2452: 2449: 2447: 2444: 2442: 2439: 2436: 2435: 2430: 2428: 2425: 2423: 2420: 2418: 2415: 2413: 2410: 2409: 2407: 2403: 2397: 2394: 2392: 2389: 2387: 2384: 2382: 2381:Pseudoscience 2379: 2377: 2376:Justification 2374: 2372: 2369: 2367: 2364: 2362: 2359: 2357: 2354: 2353: 2351: 2347: 2341: 2338: 2336: 2333: 2331: 2328: 2326: 2323: 2321: 2318: 2316: 2313: 2311: 2308: 2306: 2303: 2301: 2298: 2297: 2295: 2291: 2285: 2282: 2280: 2277: 2275: 2272: 2270: 2267: 2266: 2264: 2260: 2256: 2252: 2245: 2240: 2238: 2233: 2231: 2226: 2225: 2222: 2210: 2202: 2200: 2192: 2191: 2188: 2178: 2177:Alfred Tarski 2175: 2173: 2170: 2169: 2167: 2163: 2157: 2154: 2152: 2149: 2147: 2146:Peter Galison 2144: 2142: 2139: 2137: 2134: 2133: 2131: 2129: 2125: 2119: 2116: 2114: 2111: 2109: 2106: 2105: 2103: 2099: 2093: 2090: 2088: 2085: 2083: 2080: 2079: 2077: 2073: 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1310:Descriptivism 1308: 1306: 1303: 1301: 1298: 1297: 1295: 1291: 1281: 1278: 1276: 1275:Philosophical 1273: 1271: 1268: 1266: 1265:Non-classical 1263: 1261: 1258: 1256: 1253: 1251: 1248: 1247: 1245: 1241: 1235: 1232: 1230: 1227: 1225: 1222: 1221: 1219: 1215: 1209: 1206: 1204: 1201: 1199: 1196: 1194: 1191: 1189: 1186: 1185: 1183: 1179: 1176: 1172: 1168: 1161: 1156: 1154: 1149: 1147: 1142: 1141: 1138: 1130: 1126: 1120: 1113: 1109: 1105: 1099: 1097: 1095: 1081: 1080: 1073: 1059: 1055: 1049: 1042: 1038: 1034: 1028: 1026: 1024: 1016: 1015: 1010: 1006: 1001: 995:, 2002) ch 5. 994: 990: 984: 977: 973: 969: 963: 956: 955: 950: 949:"Carl Hempel" 944: 929: 925: 918: 911: 907: 901: 899: 883: 879: 872: 870: 850: 844: 833: 832: 824: 817: 813: 807: 800: 796: 790: 781: 774: 768: 761: 757: 751: 749: 747: 739: 735: 729: 722: 718: 714: 708: 706: 704: 702: 700: 698: 690: 686: 680: 673: 669: 665: 662:C. 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Index

Verifiability (science)
empirically
senses
tautologies
metaphysics
theology
ethics
aesthetics
truth value
logical positivism
analytic philosophy
naturalistic
experience
pragmatist
C.S. Peirce
conventionalist
Pierre Duhem
instrumentalism
logical positivists
Berlin Circle
Vienna Circle
epistemology
empirical science
Ludwig Wittgenstein
philosophy of language
Tractatus
Bertrand Russell
reformulate the analytic–synthetic distinction
semantical
synthetic a priori

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