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LOGICAL POSITIVIST
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Dictionary entry overview: What does logical positivist mean?
• LOGICAL POSITIVIST (noun)
The noun LOGICAL POSITIVIST has 1 sense:
1. someone who maintains that any statement that cannot be verified empirically is meaningless
Familiarity information: LOGICAL POSITIVIST used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who maintains that any statement that cannot be verified empirically is meaningless
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("logical positivist" is a kind of...):
positivist; rationalist (someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes)
Derivation:
logical positivism (the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation))
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