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Experience and Prediction
book by Reichenbach
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place in logical positivism
- In positivism: The verifiability criterion of meaning and its offshoots
…to California, proposed, in his Experience and Prediction (1938), a probabilistic conception. If hypotheses, generalizations, and theories can be made more or less probable by whatever evidence is available, he argued, then they are factually meaningful. In another version of meaningfulness, first adumbrated by Schlick (under the influence of Wittgenstein),…
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