PHILOS 128 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Moritz Schlick, Falsifiability, Imre Lakatos
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All other propositions are nonsensical: sense data / the given, verificationism, problem of the external world is a meaningless pseudoproblem, meaningless to compare quality of experience between two observers, meaning of a proposition is based on sense data, verification principle: meaning of a proposition is identical with its verification in the given, problems with verificationism a. Anything that confirms a hypothesis also confirms its logical equivalent: verification principle is not verifiable, 3rd person science can"t be verified for it is all based on 1st person statements, problems with logical positivism, sense data refers to private sensations of speaker, sense data statements may or may not be infallible, sense data statements may or may not be incorrigible, atomic statements are verifiable by an individual, and so are always true, and so have no descriptive content. Schlick: structuralism. i: confirmationism, cumulative data adds to confirmation, popper: i. ii. iii. iv. v. vi. vii.
