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logical positivism/logical empiricism  

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  • This entry gives an overview of the once influential philosophical movement of the Logical Positivists or Logical Empiricists, among the main contributors who shaped 20th-century analytic philosophy and philosophy of science in particular. The history of the philosophy of the social sciences has been particularly entangled with the fortunes of the logical-positivist views of science. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Logical Positivism/Logical Empiricism]

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