LOGICAL POSITIVIST

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Meaning:

Someone who maintains that any statement that cannot be verified empirically is meaningless

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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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