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logical positivist

Noun

Meaning

someone who maintains that any statement that cannot be verified empirically is meaningless

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Synonyms

freethinker agnostic atheist empiricist instrumentalist critical thinker analytical thinker consequentialist factualist evidentialist natural realist self-styled rationalist absolute pragmatist adaptive strategist critical realist
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positivist rationalist

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To get at the meaning of a statement the logical positivist asks, "What would the world be like if it were true?" The operationist asks, "What would we have to do to come to believe it?" For the pragmatist the question is, "What would we do if did believe it?" Abraham Kaplan

If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now. Flannery O’Connor

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logical pattern logical pitfall logical positivism logical possibility logical process logical proof