a philosophical theory that holds to be meaningful only those propositions that can be analysed by the tools of logic into elementary propositions that are either tautological or are empirically verifiable. It thereforerejects metaphysics, theology, and sometimes ethics as meaningless
logical positivism in American English
a movement in philosophy which tests all statements by reference to sense experience or the structure of language and is concerned with the unification of the sciences through a common logical language
: also called logical empiricism
Examples of 'logical positivism' in a sentence
logical positivism
The shadow of the old-fashioned views of logical positivism looms over all this.
The Times Literary Supplement (2012)
It borrows from a philosophical position at its most extreme, known as Logical Positivism: that statements that can't be verified are meaningless.
David Boyle AUTHENTICITY: Brands, Fakes, Spin and the Lust for Real Life (2003)