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... statement with experienced fact is not possible . In such cases you show that the statements about the tree and the mountains can be inferred from some other statements which can be verified directly . In this way the statements about ...
... statement with experienced fact is not possible . In such cases you show that the statements about the tree and the mountains can be inferred from some other statements which can be verified directly . In this way the statements about ...
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... statement that cannot be verified or refuted in either of these two ways , is unquestionably mean- ingless . This is the Verifiability Criterion of Meaning , and its derivation from admittedly meaningful and meaningless statements . As ...
... statement that cannot be verified or refuted in either of these two ways , is unquestionably mean- ingless . This is the Verifiability Criterion of Meaning , and its derivation from admittedly meaningful and meaningless statements . As ...
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... statement is itself meaningful . No one would want it that a statement of the criterion of meaning was itself meaningless . Therefore the statement itself is either empirical or tautological . If it is empirical , then it does not ...
... statement is itself meaningful . No one would want it that a statement of the criterion of meaning was itself meaningless . Therefore the statement itself is either empirical or tautological . If it is empirical , then it does not ...
Contents
AN INTRODUCTION | 2 |
A Metaphysical Problem | 90 |
An Epistemological Problem | 169 |
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