Logical Positivism

Question 1

What was the main focus of logical positivism?

Answer 1

Logical positivism searched for the answer to the question what is meaning?

Question 2

Explain Ludwig Wittgenstein I.

Answer 2

Wittgenstein was interested in the concept of higher meaning. He wanted to separate the sense from the nonsense.
He defended the correspondence theory of truth and meaning.
Problems are either scientific or meaningless.

Question 3

Explain the 1929 pamphlet.

Answer 3

1. Rejection of meaningless statements.
2. Logic: protocol sentences.
3. Positivism.
4. Unified science: deductive-nomological model.
5. Demarcation criteria: verifiability and confirmability.

Question 4

Explain the problems with logical positivism.

Answer 4

1. No good demarcation criteria found.
2. induction problem.
3. theory-ladeness of perception.