Meaning

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  1. (uncountable, usually)A 20th-century school of philosophy which held that all knowledge is based on logical inferences from empirical observations.

    logischer Empirismus, logischer Positivismus, Neopositivismus

    логи́ческий позитиви́змlogíčeskij pozitivízm

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  • the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)

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Forms

plural: logical positivisms
Singularlogical positivism

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Close in meaning
  • the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation):positivism

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