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Logical Positivism

A topic within Nineteenth & Twentieth Century Philosophy, itself one of 13 topics in that field and part of Philosophy.

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Essay1929

The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle

Hans Hahn, Otto Neurath & Rudolf Carnap

Sets out the Vienna Circle's programme of unifying science on a basis of logical analysis and verifiable statements, and rejecting metaphysics as meaningless rather than merely false.

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Language, Truth and Logic

A. J. Ayer

Argues that a statement is meaningful only if it is either analytically true or empirically verifiable, which rules out ethics, metaphysics and theology as literally without sense.

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