PHIL 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Logical Positivism, Foundationalism, Behaviorism
4 Jul 2016
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Ayer: we should translate all talk about physical objects into talk about sense- contents. Ex: the symbol table" is de nable int terms of certain symbols which stand for sense- contents. The process of reduction is the process of giving what ayer calls de nitions in use . The view that statements in some class are equivalent to a statement or statements in another class. Ex: behaviourism reduces sentences about mental states to sentences about behaviour. The view that sentences about physical objects are equivalent to sentences about sense-contents. Ex: any talk about a physical object can be relayed to believing that sensations are obtainable. The view that all possible physical objects can be translated into sense contents (literally the answer on the quiz) sense contents, are any of the current experiences. All meaningful empirical statements (supposedly) can be reduced to observation sentences. Logical empiricism has a variety of foundationalist epistemology.
