verificationismn.

1939 I. Berlin in Proc. Aristotelian Soc. XXXIX. 226 It will tend to show that historical connexion between phenomenalism and ‘verificationism’ is not a logical one, and that the failure of the latter does not necessarily invalidate the former.

1943 Mind 52 98 Full-blooded verificationism..has now commonly been abandoned in favour of what might be called methodological verificationism.

1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax 194 Perhaps this loss of interest in theory..was fostered by certain ideas (i.e., strict operationalism or strict verificationism) that were considered briefly in positivist philosophy of science..in the early nineteen-thirties.