logical positivist

How To Use logical positivist In A Sentence

• In discussing means and ends, as well as facts and values, Simon (1947) is forthcoming concerning his own (logical positivist) philosophical perspective.
• There are theists in all of these categories (don't know about transcendental idealism or logical positivists), so they all allow for divine intervention of a kind.
• The empiricist position has been taken in recent times by the logical positivists of the Vienna Circle.
• The biological positivists could only propose indeterminate detention or extinction for such categories of offender.
• Logical positivists denied the soundness of metaphysics and traditional philosophy; they asserted that many philosophical problems are indeed meaningless.
• The logical positivists dismissed metaphysics as cognitively meaningless, unverifiable by observation and logic. The Times Literary Supplement
• When they could find no way of avoiding the con - clusion that knowledge was either unverifiable or sub - jective, the logical positivists retreated from seeking certainty into arguing that there was no way of estab - lishing a correspondence between knowledge and fact. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
• The behavioral approach was based on a logical positivistic philosophy of science, which was strongly empirical and in which the unit of analysis was the actions of human agents, making decisions to advance their values.
• Much environmental prediction is predicated upon a logical positivist or Newtonian deterministic basis.
• Logical positivists denied the soundness of metaphysics and traditional philosophy; they asserted that many philosophical problems are indeed meaningless.