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LOGICAL POSITIVIST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who maintains that any statement that cannot be verified empirically is meaningless
Classified under:
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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