verifiability principle: Meaning and Definition of

verifiabil'ity prin"ciple

Pronunciation: [key]
— Logical Positivism. Logical Positivism.
  1. the doctrine that if a nonanalytic statement is to be cognitively meaningful it must be empirically verifiable.
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