Logical positivism

a philosophy (of science), that originated in the Vienna Circle  in the 1920s, which holds that philosophy should aspire to the same sort of rigor  as science. Philosophy should provide strict criteria for judging sentences true, false and meaningless. Although the logical positivists held a wide range of beliefs on many matters, they all shared an interest in science and deep skepticism of the theological  and metaphysical . Following Wittgenstein, many subscribed to the correspondence theory of truth , although some, like Neurath, believed in coherentism . They believed that all knowledge should be based on logical inference from simple "protocol sentences" grounded in observable facts. Hence many supported forms of realism, materialism , philosophical naturalism , and empiricism . Logical positivism is also referred to as logical empiricism, rational empiricism, and neo-positivism.

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