PHL * K101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Logical Positivism, Hypothetico-Deductive Model, Falsifiability
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Religious claims are not eligible to be considered in a truth or false, nor ethical claims, nor aesthetic claims, can be empirical knowledge. Morality is not a candidate for empirical knowledge. Certain kinds of statements are not measurable in terms of the appropriate sorts of justification for empirical- cannot be falsified by appeal to the senses. To be eligible to be a knowledge claim, it can be assessed as true or false empirically. The criterion of logical empiricists to determine what kinds of statements can be considered knowledge: the verificationist"s criterion of meaning: for a statement to be meaningful, it must be falsifiable by appeal to the senses. Statement can be proven or disproven by appeal to the senses. To be meaningful, is to be able to be proven, or disproven, in principle, even if we cannot prove it in fact. Empiricism is anti-metaphysical, most metaphysical statements are meaningless. Every event has a cause- fundamental assertion of science.
