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Verification, philosophy: verification means determining the truth value ("true" or "false") of statements that refer to the observable. The admissible means of verification are determined by the theories, the statements belong to. See also verificationism, confirmation, certainty, empiricism, foundation, proof, manifestation, understanding, generalization._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Ludwig Wittgenstein on Verification - Dictionary of Arguments
Hintikka I 216 Verification/Comparison/Wittgenstein/Hintikka: the picture must be taken as a scale. - Verification is not an indication of the truth but the sense of the sentence. - (1929). >Sense. I 217 The comparison between language and the world must take place in the same world. - Language belongs to the physical world. - Also the symbolizing relations between sentences and facts belong to the physical system. >Language, >World, >Reality, >Symbols, cf. >Correspondence theory, >Justification. I 218 The scale must be in the same room as the measured thing. >Measurements. I 224 Verification/Hintikka: a phenomenological sentence is verified directly by data - on the other hand: one sentence in a physical language: is a dazzling thing. - (Many objects are too large, too small, too far away) - Physical Language: public. - Phenomenological language: rather private. >Phenomenology. I 289 Verification/Wittgenstein/Hintikka: early: meaning of an assertion = method of their possible verification. - Late: less important. - The truth of a belief is something other than its literal truth._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
W II L. Wittgenstein Wittgenstein’s Lectures 1930-32, from the notes of John King and Desmond Lee, Oxford 1980 German Edition: Vorlesungen 1930-35 Frankfurt 1989 W III L. Wittgenstein The Blue and Brown Books (BB), Oxford 1958 German Edition: Das Blaue Buch - Eine Philosophische Betrachtung Frankfurt 1984 W IV L. Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP), 1922, C.K. Ogden (trans.), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul. Originally published as “Logisch-Philosophische Abhandlung”, in Annalen der Naturphilosophische, XIV (3/4), 1921. German Edition: Tractatus logico-philosophicus Frankfurt/M 1960 Hintikka I Jaakko Hintikka Merrill B. Hintikka Investigating Wittgenstein German Edition: Untersuchungen zu Wittgenstein Frankfurt 1996 Hintikka II Jaakko Hintikka Merrill B. Hintikka The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic Dordrecht 1989 |