logical positivism
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- logical positivist noun
Etymology
Origin of logical positivism
First recorded in 1930–35
Example Sentences
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When your congregation zealously overestimates the epistemological functionality of empiricism in the work of logical positivism, you trap the conversation of science and consciousness in your lethally boring Vienna wagon-Circling.
From Salon • Apr. 1, 2024
Then there was Musil the philosophical scientist, interested in probability theory and logical positivism, as well as in the workings of the mind and the soul.
From New York Times • Dec. 5, 2019
Atwood enrolled in the philosophy department, but after discovering that logical positivism was its mainstay, rather than ethics and aesthetics, she switched to literature.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 10, 2017
The Mayhemites differ from their many peers who descend from the antimetaphysical tradition of logical positivism.
From Slate • Feb. 10, 2012
He became the patron saint of logical positivism, that dry, scrupulous wing of modern philosophy most concerned with linguistics, most scornful of the broad, uplifting phrases of the old philosophers.
From Time Magazine Archive
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