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Christian Philosophy . Daniel J. Hill and Randal D. Rauser. 2015.
principle, verifiability
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principle — /prin seuh peuhl/, n. 1. an accepted or professed rule of action or conduct: a person of good moral principles. 2. a fundamental, primary, or general law or truth from which others are derived: the principles of modern physics. 3. a fundamental… … Universalium
verifiability principle — noun 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… … Wiktionary
verifiability principle — Logical Positivism. the doctrine that if a nonanalytic statement is to be cognitively meaningful it must be empirically verifiable. [1965 70] * * * Criterion of meaningfulness associated with logical positivism and the Vienna Circle. Moritz… … Universalium
verifiability principle — noun or verifiability theory : a proposal or claim of early logical positivists according to which a requirement or criterion for the meaningfulness of a factual statement is its susceptibility to the possibility of being either theoretically or… … Useful english dictionary
verifiability theory — noun see verifiability principle … Useful english dictionary
principle, verification — see verification/verifiability principle … Christian Philosophy
Intersubjective verifiability — is the capacity of a concept to be readily and accurately communicated between different individuals ( intersubjectively ), and to be reproduced under varying circumstances for the purposes of verification. It is a core principle of empirical,… … Wikipedia
Cosmological principle — See also: Friedmann Lemaître Robertson Walker metric and Large scale structure of the cosmos Physical cosmology … Wikipedia
falsification principle — Suggested by Karl Popper, the falsification principle distinguishes scientific statements from non scientific statements in virtue of their conceivable falsification. A highly influential application of the principle to religion is found in… … Christian Philosophy
verification principle — (or verifiability principle ) The principle central to logical positivism, according to which the meaning of a statement is its method of verification. Sentences apparently expressing propositions that admit of no verification (such as those of… … Philosophy dictionary
