verifiability principle
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.59 in modern English
39
Scrabble Score
22
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9
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13
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Meaning
noun
The principle, especially in 20th-century empiricism, that a statement has meaning if, and only if, either it can be verified by means of empirical observations or it is logically true by definition.
Example Sentences
- "It is generally agreed among most advocates of the Verifiability Principle that analytic and empirical statements exhaust the class of cognitively meaningful statements."
- "Carnap, for example, invoked the verifiability principle to argue that the problem of the external world was a 'pseudo-problem'—for neither the proposition 'there is an external world' nor its negation is verifiable in experience, so both are meaningless."