"logical positivism" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: en-us-logical positivism.ogg Forms: logical positivisms [plural]
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  1. (philosophy) A 20th-century school of philosophy which held that all knowledge is based on logical inferences from empirical observations. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (school of philiosophy): pozitivism logic [neuter] (Romanian), логи́ческий позитиви́зм (logíčeskij pozitivízm) (Russian)

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