Logical Positivism

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Logical Positivism

A twentieth-century philosophical school of thought that was inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. According to logical positivism, all meaningful statements may be confirmed by observation and experiment or are "analytic" (deducible from observations).


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The Age of Intelligent Machines: Footnotes By Ray Kurzweil
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The Paradigms and Paradoxes of Intelligence, Part 2: The Church-Turing Thesis By Ray Kurzweil
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The Age of Intelligent Machines, Chapter Three: Mathematical Roots By Ray Kurzweil

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