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LOGICAL POSITIVISM

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

The form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)play

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)

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