LING 2504 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Verificationism, Logical Positivism
14 Dec 2015
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02/10/2015 (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) (cid:1) Truth of fact needing to verify the truth. Theory supplies an epistemic accounts of meaning that is practically guiding. A sentence"s verification condition is the set of possible experiences that would show that sentence to be true: a sentence"s falsification condition is the s et of experiences that would show the sentence to be false. The verification condition can test not only for meaningfulness itself, but also for particular meanings. Verificationists say no: they allow some sentences that are not empirically testable to be meaningful a distinct class of sentences that we know as analytic sentences: analytic sentences are true. Applies only to a very narrow subset of linguistic expressions (descriptive o fact-stating language) Sentences can be verified only if we know what they mean. Reduces metaphysics to the theory of language. Unclear how the verification principle itself can be verified without being elf-affirming or undermining.
