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LOGICAL POSITIVISM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)
Synonyms:
logical positivism; positivism
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("logical positivism" is a kind of...):
empiricism; empiricist philosophy; sensationalism ((philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "logical positivism"):
Comtism (Auguste Comte's positivistic philosophy that metaphysics and theology should be replaced by a hierarchy of sciences from mathematics at the base to sociology at the top)
Derivation:
logical positivist (someone who maintains that any statement that cannot be verified empirically is meaningless)
