Lexicon of Arguments

 

II 104
Verifiability Criterion/Hempel: the domain of cognitively significant language is that of potential knowledge, i.e. the verifiable domain.
>Significance.
II 106ff
Empiricist Criterion of Meaning/Hempel: we need verifiability, not actual, but in principle, otherwise the statement "Planet Neptune did not exist prior to his discovery" is possible. It is enough that the impossibility of the verifiability is "merely empirical" - "empirically impossible"/metaphysically impossible?
>Metaphysical possibility.
II 114
Empiricist Criterion of Meaning/Carnap/Hempel: solution: the translatability into empiricist (artificial, ideal) language offers a solution here.
II 121
Translations are indirectly a partial interpretation of the hypothesis and the constructions through which they are formulated.
>Translation, >Interpretation, >Hypotheses.
II 125
Empiricist Criterion of Meaning: the empiricist criterion of meaning is a linguistic design, neither true nor false.
1) The explication should provide a nearly complete analysis of the generally accepted sense of the explicandum.
2) It is supposed to carry out a rational reconstruction of the explicandum.
>Rational reconstruction/Hempel, >Rational reconstruction/Quine.