Lexicon of Arguments

Philosophical and Scientific Issues in Dispute
 
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Theses II

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II 110
Sensible/negation/sense/significance/verificationism/Hempel: problem: if a singular statement makes sense, its negation is a universal statement ("nothing has property P") and generalizations are senseless because they cannot be verified according to the verificationism.
II 111
Empiricist criterion of meaning/Hempel: the empiricist criterion of meaning is provisionally a falsifiability principle.
Vs:
1. That excludes pure existence assertions.
2. Conjunctions with not completely falsifiable parts are completely falsifiable.
3. An observation predicate "all things have the property p" is then significant because it is falsifiable but not the negation.
II 114
Empiricist criterion of meaning/Carnap/Hempel: Solution: a solution is offered here by the translatability into empiricist (artificial, ideal) language.
II 121
Translations are indirectly a partial interpretation of the hypothesis and the structures through which they are formulated.
II 125
The empiricist criterion of meaning is a linguistic design; it is neither true nor false.
1. The explication should provide a nearly complete analysis of the generally accepted sense of the explicandum.
2. It is to carry out a rational reconstruction of explicandum.
>Sense, >Meaning, >Significance.

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