The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle
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foundational text of logical empiricism
foundational text of logical positivism
philosophical manifesto
programmatic statement
"The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle" is a foundational manifesto that articulates the Vienna Circle’s program of scientifically oriented philosophy, emphasizing empirical verification, logical analysis, and the rejection of metaphysics.
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Target entity: The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle Context triple: [logical positivism, associatedWork, The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle]
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is Ludwig Wittgenstein’s early 20th-century philosophical work that attempts to define the relationship between language, thought, and reality through a highly structured, logical framework.
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Language, Truth and Logic
Language, Truth and Logic is A.J. Ayer’s influential 1936 philosophical work that popularized logical positivism in the English-speaking world by arguing that meaningful statements are either empirically verifiable or tautological.
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is a foundational philosophical work by Immanuel Kant that concisely outlines and defends the key ideas of his critical philosophy, especially those developed more fully in the Critique of Pure Reason.
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An Investigation of the Laws of Thought
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought is George Boole’s foundational 1854 treatise that established Boolean algebra and helped lay the groundwork for modern mathematical logic and computer science.
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Principia Mathematica
Principia Mathematica is a landmark three-volume work in mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics, co-authored by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, which aimed to derive all mathematical truths from a formal system of symbolic logic.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Target entity: The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle Target entity description: "The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle" is a foundational manifesto that articulates the Vienna Circle’s program of scientifically oriented philosophy, emphasizing empirical verification, logical analysis, and the rejection of metaphysics.
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A.
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is Ludwig Wittgenstein’s early 20th-century philosophical work that attempts to define the relationship between language, thought, and reality through a highly structured, logical framework.
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B.
Language, Truth and Logic
Language, Truth and Logic is A.J. Ayer’s influential 1936 philosophical work that popularized logical positivism in the English-speaking world by arguing that meaningful statements are either empirically verifiable or tautological.
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C.
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is a foundational philosophical work by Immanuel Kant that concisely outlines and defends the key ideas of his critical philosophy, especially those developed more fully in the Critique of Pure Reason.
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D.
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought
An Investigation of the Laws of Thought is George Boole’s foundational 1854 treatise that established Boolean algebra and helped lay the groundwork for modern mathematical logic and computer science.
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E.
Principia Mathematica
Principia Mathematica is a landmark three-volume work in mathematical logic and the foundations of mathematics, co-authored by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, which aimed to derive all mathematical truths from a formal system of symbolic logic.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| instanceOf |
foundational text of logical empiricism
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foundational text of logical positivism ⓘ philosophical manifesto ⓘ programmatic statement ⓘ |
| aim |
to articulate the program of a scientifically oriented philosophy
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to demarcate meaningful statements from metaphysical pseudo‑statements ⓘ to promote logical analysis as a tool for clarifying scientific statements ⓘ |
| associatedWith |
Moritz Schlick
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University of Vienna ⓘ Vienna Circle ⓘ |
| author |
Hans Hahn
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Otto Neurath ⓘ Rudolf Carnap ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin | Austria ⓘ |
| editor | Otto Neurath ⓘ |
| genre |
epistemology
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philosophy of science ⓘ |
| historicalSignificance |
key document in the development of logical positivism
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programmatic manifesto of the Vienna Circle ⓘ |
| influenced |
analytic philosophy
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logical empiricist movement ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ unity of science movement ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Bertrand Russell
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David Hume ⓘ Ernst Mach ⓘ Gottlob Frege ⓘ Ludwig Wittgenstein ⓘ |
| language | German ⓘ |
| mainTheme |
anti‑metaphysical stance
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empirical verification ⓘ logical analysis of language ⓘ rejection of metaphysics ⓘ scientific world-conception ⓘ unity of science ⓘ verification principle (in early form) ⓘ |
| originalTitle | Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung: Der Wiener Kreis ⓘ |
| philosophicalMovement |
logical empiricism
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logical positivism ⓘ |
| positionOnKnowledge | all knowledge about the world is based on experience ⓘ |
| positionOnMetaphysics | metaphysical statements are cognitively meaningless ⓘ |
| positionOnPhilosophy | philosophy is logical analysis of scientific language ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1929 ⓘ |
| subject |
anti‑metaphysics
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empiricism ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ scientific method ⓘ |
| title | The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle ⓘ |
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