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verifiability principle

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  • noun philosophy The principle, especially in 20th-century empiricism, that a statement has meaning if, and only if, either it can be verified by means of empirical observations or it is logically true by definition.

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Coined by the philosopher Alfred Jules Ayer circa 1936.

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synonyms (7)

Words with the same meaning

  1. criterion of verifiability
  2. criterion of verification
  3. principle of verifiability
  4. principle of verification
  5. verifiability criterion
  6. verification criterion
  7. verification principle

cross-references (2)

Cross-references

  1. logical positivism
  2. verificationism

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