Logical positivism

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c. 1924 – 1960 · Europe · origin: Vienna

Only what can be verified by experience or logic is meaningful

Key ideas

• The verification principle
• Metaphysics is meaningless
• A unified science in the language of logic and physics
• The Vienna Circle; Popper answered with falsifiability

Key thinkers

• Moritz Schlick (founder) — German philosopher, founder of the Vienna Circle, 1882–1936

Grew out of

• Positivism c. 1830 – 1900 · Europe
• Analytic philosophy c. since 1900 · Europe

Meanwhile elsewhere

• Confucianism Asia
• Buddhist philosophy Asia
• Taoism Asia
• Nyaya Asia
• Madhyamaka Asia
• Yogachara Asia
• Chan and Zen Asia
• Advaita Vedanta Asia
• Kalam Middle East
• Russian religious philosophy Eastern Europe & Russia
• Pragmatism Americas
• Russian cosmism Eastern Europe & Russia
• Kyoto School Asia
• Négritude Africa

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