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Logical positivism
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logical positivism noun
- A philosophy asserting the primacy of observation in assessing the truth of statements of fact and holding that metaphysical and subjective arguments not based on observable data are meaningless.
- A 20th century school of philosophy which held that all knowledge is based on logical inferences from empirical observations.
- The form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)