verifiability principle

名词 n.
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名词 n.
  1. 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.
    — It is generally agreed among most advocates of the Verifiability Principle that analytic and empirical statements exhaust the class of cognitively meaningful statements.

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Coined by the philosopher Alfred Jules Ayer c. 1936.
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