Logical empiricism is an outgrowth of logical positivism, in which the verifiability principle was put forward as a criterion for distinguishing meaningful statements from meaningless pseudo-statements. For logical positivism, if any proposition or statement were not in principle conclusively verifiable by experience, it was to be considered meaningless, or, at best, tautological. Along this line then it was intended that meaningful statements include the pronouncements of science, while excluding those of metaphysics, ethics, and theology.
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(2007). The Basis Of The Logical Empiricist Conception Of Science. In: Scientific Progress. Synthese Library, vol 153. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6354-1_2
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