Logical positivism was wildly successful, and some of its key ideas became widely accepted as common-sense truths among the general public.

This article reviews the historical emergence and basic tenets of logical positivism, and demonstrates that a number of these positivistic tenets still exert a deeply hidden and deleterious influence ...

News Published: 12 February 1944 An Attack on Logical Positivism Nature 153, 191–192 (1944) Cite this article ...

Logical positivism, on the other hand, with its tendency to dismiss morality as emotive nonsense can tie its future to operationalism in scientific isolation. Similarly both schools are behavioristic.

Logical Positivism – Verification (A. J. Ayer) – religious ethical language as meaningless; there can be no way in which we could verify the truth or falsehood of the propositions (e.g. God is ...

The Philosophy Education Society of America, a 501 (c) (3) charity organization, is the publisher of the Review of Metaphysics. The Society's raison d'etre is to promote definitive contributions to ...