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	Demarcation problem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In opposition to this view, Popper emphasized that a theory might well be meaningful without being scientific, and that, accordingly, a criterion of meaningfulness may not necessarily coincide with a criterion of demarcation.
		His own falsificationism, thus, is not only an alternative to verificationism; it is also an acknowledgment of the conceptual distinction that previous theories had ignored.
		In place of verificationism he proposed falsification as a way of determining if a theory is scientific or not.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Demarcation_problem (1995 words)

	Epistemic theories of truth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Verificationism is based on the idea that the mind engages in a certain kind of activity: "verifying" a proposition.
		The distinctive claim of verificationism is that the result of such verifications is, by definition, truth.
		Roughly, a proposition is true relative to a perspective if, and only if, it is "accepted" or "endorsed" or "legitimated" somehow by that perspective.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Verificationism (1015 words)

	PSYCHE-D Archives -- December 1995 (#21)
		As I see it, verificationism entails that statements that are made that purportedly have "truth" values of some sort must also be accompanied by some means, some procedure for assessing whether the statement is true, false, inapplicable, or meaningless.
		Verificationism does not prevent us from talking about or imagining things that are beyond verification or testing; it does, however, compel us to keep straight which statements and claims are in some sense testable and which ones are not or may never be testable.
		Verificationism is not necessarily incompatible with the study of mental structures or even the use of introspection.
	listserv.uh.edu /cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9512&L=psyche-d&F=&S=&P=1962 (858 words)

	Verificationism
		Central to verificationism is the idea of an observation-statement, a statement that reports a sensory observation which could in principle be made.
		Verificationism, to put it quite pointedly, is a snare and a delusion.
		On its own terms, though, it seems that the fate of verificationism would be the same as theistic sentences, for it does not appear that verificationism is conclusively verifiable by any observation-statement.
	www.homestead.com /philofreligion/files/Verificationism.html (5364 words)

	PART 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Verificationism is the doctrine stating that all truths are knowable.
		I will conclude that verificationism, extending to empirical areas, is defensible, though only at a rather great expense.
		Verificationism tries to connect directly the concepts of truth and knowledge.
	www.uri.edu /artsci/phl/marton/dissertation/part1.htm (770 words)

	Theory & Psychology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In logical positivism it pertains to the development of verificationism, whilst in Gergen's social constructionism it involves his claim that language acquires meaning through its use in socio-linguistic practices.
		Verificationism, operationism and social constructionism all incorporate forms of the meaning-as-use thesis.
		Specifically, verificationism, operationism and social constructionism, each in their own way, confuse the thing referred to, or a term's meaning, with what is being done in using the term.
	www.psych.ucalgary.ca /thpsyc/VOLUMES.SI/2001/11.3Hibbert2.html (9520 words)

	20th WCP: Making Sense of the Other: Husserl, Carnap, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein
		The acceptance by Husserl and the logical positivists of verificationism confronted each with the same problem: how to understand the Other as a subject with his or her own experiences.
		Verificationism was a poison intended to destroy philosophical weeds, but it would kill the Other too.
		Alarmed, Husserl decided that Other did not have to take the verificationist toxin, because the Other has the peculiar quality that he or she "never demands and never is open to fulfillment by presentation" (1991, 119).
	www.bu.edu /wcp/Papers/Comp/CompCorn.htm (3092 words)

	Message in a Bottle: On the Popularity of Verificationism
		According to the standard textbook account, verificationism is a doctrine that was popular back in the days of logical positivism.
		This led to verificationism being thoroughly discredited and consigned to the philosophical scrap-heap, along with most of the other doctrines characteristic of logical positivism.
		Quine, Putnam and Dummett, to pick the three best-known cases, are all openly sympathetic to the basic verificationist idea that the content of a statement is closely tied to what would count as evidence for its truth.
	ihaveablogandmustwrite.blogspot.com /2004/07/on-popularity-of-verificationism.html (399 words)

	Introduction
		The motivation is not to revive verificationism, but to pave the way for understanding why it fails by looking at unsuccessful attempts at its refutation.
		The question we ought to ask is that of whether verificationism can ever be useful; for it would be extremely difficult to isolate the set of theoretical concepts from their counterparts.
		The real objection to verificationism on the basis of the theory/observation distinction, as I see it, is just that verificationism is fruitless because we wouldn’t know how to begin categorizing simple and complex ideas—let alone statements.
	publish.uwo.ca /~dpalmier/papers/verificationism.htm (4759 words)

	Anti-inductionism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Verificationism is questioned, because inductive proof does not provide an adequate foundation for recognizing statements as true.
		Anti-inductionism leads to a skeptical attitude among the majority of contemporary methodologists to varieties of verificationism as a conception that professes the positive verification of hypotheses but at the same time disregards the application of sound procedures of refutation.
		The negative fragment of the content of anti-inductionism contains three elements: (1) the results of observation and the conclusions based on them are both dependent upon the accepted conceptual apparatus of a given language and upon the decision that not only scientific theories but also statements of observation are not univocally indicated by experience.
	www.kul.lublin.pl /efk/angielski/hasla/a/antiinductionism.html (1094 words)

	Responses to Stroud (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		It is unclear to me how the POT might collapse into verificationism as this principle does not even seem to depend on empiricism.
		A simple, but relatively unsatisfying, way to defend this is to point to the many philosophers who have been/are empiricists, but who do not consider themselves verificationists.
		While this is a broadly empiricist doctrine, I have already argued that it does not in itself commit one to verificationism.
	www-csli.stanford.edu /~weisberg/Carnap2/node8.html (850 words)

	Verif
		But they have meaning of a sort because they are true; their truth, however trivial, is guaranteed by the collective meanings of the words that occur in them.
		Verificationism is an attractive view that has been held fervently by many.
		But this assumes already that there are strings of words that are literally meaningless even though they are grammatically well-formed and composed of perfectly meaningful words; and that is, when you think about it, a very bold claim.
	www.unc.edu /~ujanel/Verif.htm (4609 words)

	Falsifiability - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Falsifiability was one of the criteria used by Judge William Overton to determine that 'creation science' was not scientific and should not be taught in Arkansas public schools.
		In the philosophy of science, verificationism (also known as the verifiability theory of meaning) held that a statement must be in principle empirically verifiable in order to be both meaningful and scientific.
		This was an essential feature of the logical empiricism of the so-called Vienna Circle that featured such philosophers as Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, and Hans Reichenbach.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Falsifiability (3590 words)

	Mind: Verificationism: Its History and Prospects. - book reviews
		As she notes in the introduction, one aim is to argue that anyone who wishes to take verificationism seriously ought to abandon the realist doctrine that reality transcends possible experience.
		But the goal of this book is not to defend or develop these ideas: it is a survey of the work of other thinkers, together with an attempt to derive some morals from their successes and failures.
		I would have welcomed a much fuller discussion of the claim that verificationism requires an anti-realist conception of truth: a conclusion which may surprise many who share Misak's admiration for that self-confessed "realist of a somewhat extreme stripe", Charles Peirce.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m2346/is_n420_v105/ai_18851904 (829 words)

	Convegno SIFA (Bologna, 23-26 settembre 1998) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The first attitude is exemplified by the so-called "deflationist" theories of truth, the second by the projects - or dreams - of a "naturalized" semantics, the third by verificationism, the doctrine according to which the notion of truth-conditions should be rejected and replaced by the notion of assertibility conditions.
		I turn now to the topic of verificationism, to which the rest of this paper is devoted.
		There is a famous argument which purports to show that knowledge of meaning cannot consist in knowledge of truth-conditions, and that it should be identified instead with knowledge of assertibility conditions.
	ww2.unime.it /scef/filling/casalegn_b.htm (4199 words)

	Specials on Verificationism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The theory of meaning that sprang from the head of Logical Posivitism was verificationism.
		Here is a quote from his paper Verificationism, Realism And Scepticism, Erkenntnis Volume 55, Issue 3, Dec 2001, p 371-385: According to the.
		Verificationism Philosophy of Language Curtis Brown If we abstract away from certain points which are important in other contexts, we can represent the progression from the 17th-century empiricists to.
	books.preschool-software.com /verificationism.28522.html (306 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Form of confirmation bias often applied in anti-realism, a school of thought which states that all truths are knowable.
		Verificationism is the practice by which people value supposedly-known truths more than they do speculation (Stirton, 1997).
		When a person sees a theory or hypothesis as logical or reasonable, he or she will be more likely to support its explanatory power and accept whatever confirmatory results are obtained when that theory is tested (Nelson, 1996)—people will accept anything that even hints that they are correct.
	www.cvgs.k12.va.us /research/Final/sresch02/daly/lit.htm (329 words)

	What's So Bad about Living in the Matrix?
		The usual varieties of verificationism say that for there to be a 8,850 m tall mountain, it has to be publicly verifiable that the mountain exists and is 8,850 m tall.
		We can call this second version of the view "personal verificationism," since it says that what's true—well, true for me—always depends on what I myself would be able to verify.
		I propose we set verificationism aside at this point; and see whether doing so helps us get any closer to determining what it is about the Matrix that makes it seem bad.
	whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com /rl_cmp/new_phil_pryor.html (7989 words)

	Teorías de Epistemic de la verdad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Verificationism se basa en la idea que la mente contrata a cierta clase de actividad: "verificando" un asunto.
		La demanda distintiva del verificationism es que el resultado de tales verificaciones es, por la definición, verdad.
		Verificationism sobre verdad viene en tres clases principales:
	www.yotor.net /wiki/es/te/Teor%EDas%20de%20Epistemic%20de%20la%20verdad.htm (1060 words)

	Behaviorism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The argument from verificationism: If mental states are "inner episodes", then statements about mental states are not verifiable.
		What they all borrow from Verificationism is the claim that meaningful mental or psychological terms (or sentences) must stand in an appropriate logical or semantic relation to something observable (or to terms or sentences about something observable).
		Because (it was widely held) the verification conditions are the meaning, and the meaning of mental state terms is common knowledge.
	www.phil.upenn.edu /~rsamuels/244_behaviorism.html (2529 words)

	Abstracts of Jon Cogburn's Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		By inventing a new logical operator with the introduction rule for the existential quantifier and the elimination rule for the universal quantifier, I am able to show that Peacocke's theory only avoids verificationism to the extent that it does not satisfy manifestationism.
		Surprisingly, the analog to the traditional solution to the paradox of the stone is identical with the restricted form of verificationism recently defended by Neil Tennant in The Taming of the True.
		We are then able to show that, paradoxically, these results provide evidence for the Computational Theory of Mind, and in addition call into question the very distinction between easy and hard problems in the contemporary philosophy of mind.
	www.artsci.lsu.edu /phil/phil1/cogburn/abstracts.html (1473 words)

	Fitch's Paradox of Knowability
		Rediscovered by Hart and McGinn (1976) and Hart (1979), the result was taken to be a refutation of verificationism, the view that all meaningful statements (and so all truths) are verifiable.
		Mackie (1980) points out some difficulties with this position but ultimately agrees that Fitch's result is a refutation of KP and that some forms of verificationism weaker than KP are imperiled for related reasons.
		By bringing to bear this analogue and resources from dynamic epistemic logic, it is suggested that the failure of the knowability principle only teaches us more about the subtleties of knowledge and communication.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/fitch-paradox (6217 words)

	Guide to Chapter Four
		Though Evans will argue (toward the end of this section) that verificationism is inadequate, the form of the verificationist position has some features that Evans will exploit in his own proposal, which will be made in Section 4.4.
		In both cases (Evans' account as articulated in 4.4, and the ideal verificationism of Dummett) there are two sorts of thoughts, which we might call basic and non-basic.
		He points out that the case of knowing which object is in question is disanalogous to the cases that trouble verificationism.
	mind.ucsd.edu /misc/resources/evans/chapterguides/ch4.html (6554 words)

	Ephilosopher :: General Philosophy Forum :: William James - Pragmatism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		Also, verificationism would be anathema to James' much more permissive epistemology and views on meaning.
		As a theory of meaning, verificationism was always self-defeating, and any espousal of it at this point amounts to philosophical necrophilia.
		Richard Gale's "Cognitivity Verificationism" does little better, and actually suffers from maladies formally similar to those that did in its older cousin.
	www.ephilosopher.com /phpBB_14-action-viewtopic-topic-1987-start-0.html (1388 words)

	RedNova News - Science - Failed refutations: Further comments on parsimony (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		In his section with the same title, Kluge (2001) presented his characterization of falsificationism and verificationism and some of their variant forms (e.g., sophisticated falsificationism, classical verificationism).
		Kluge's statement is misleading in implying a necessary connection between probabilistic methods and verificationism and thus a fundamental incompatibility between those methods and Popper's falsificationist philosophy.
		As noted here ("Falsificationism and Verificationism") and previously (de Queiroz and Poe, 2001), Popper used this proposition to argue against the idea that scientists seek hypotheses with high probabilities, that is, as opposed to hypotheses for which the evidence has a high probability relative to its probability given competing hypotheses.
	www.rednova.com /news/stories/2/2003/07/10/story114.html (5732 words)

	Dansk Filosofisk Selskab
		The difficulty is that these arguments presuppose some form of verificationism or transcendental idealism, both views widely regarded as at least as philosophically troubling as scepticism itself, it indeed dtistinct from skepticism.
		One strength of these arguments is that they do not presuppose verificationism or transcendental idealism.
		However, their genuine anti-skeptical potential has been subject to a large discussion, tending to support the view that the anti-sceptical potential is limited.
	www.humaniora.sdu.dk /~dfs/aarsmoede2004/episteme.htm (564 words)

	[No title]
		The point of saying that theism is meaningless because it is unverifiable is that, if God is transcendent, then there is no way in which his or her existence can be confirmed in experience.
		And according to verificationism, if an assertion is not empirically verifiable, at least in theory, then it is meaningless.
		For instance, asserting that the sun will become a red giant and incinerate the earth is meaningful even though, by the very nature of the case, no one would be here to verify it.
	www.ipfw.edu /phil/faculty/Strayer/ErnestN.ppt (1000 words)

	Book Review of Norris
		The second Putnam, emerging after his 1975 repudiation of metaphysical realism in favor of internal realism, permitted anti-realist arguments, quantum mechanics, and verificationism to overthrow scientific realism.
		The third post-1994 Putnam has been gradually returning to realism, by in turn leaving behind internal realism for an anti-representationalist understanding of perception and mind that may yet avoid skepticism.
		Norris is quite confident that verificationism cannot handle all types of mathematical truths and thus favors realism.
	www.pragmatism.org /bibliographies/reviews/norris.htm (995 words)

	Representation and Causal AsymmetryRepresentation and Causal Asymmetry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
		The considerations Wallis brings to bear do not undermine the substantive aspects of Fodor's account as such, but merely suggest that it is in need of more complicated modification.
		Representation and Causal Asymmetry Sun 21 March 1993 The considerations Wallis brings to bear do not undermine the substantive aspects of Fodor's account as such, but merely suggest that it is in need of more complicated modification.
		One popular approach to the naturalization of intentionality is to equate the semantic properties of mental representations with the information they carry, where the information they carry is unpacked in terms of reliable causal covariance.
	psycprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk /perl/local/psyc/makedoc?id=313&type=html (1519 words)

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