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The meaning of a proposition is the method of its verification.

Moritz Schlick

Philosophy... is that activity by which the meaning of propositions is established or discovered. Philosophy elucidates propositions, science verifies them. In the later we are concerned with the truth of statements, but in the former with what they actually mean.

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Philosophy is not a system of propositions, and not a science.

Moritz Schlick

The 'physical' does not mean any particular kind of reality, but a particular kind of denoting reality, namely a system of concepts in the natural sciences which is necessary for the cognition of reality. 'The physical' should not be interpreted wrongly as an attribute of one part of reality, but not of the other ; it is rather a word denoting a kind of conceptual construction, as, e.g., the markers 'geographical' or 'mathematical', which denote not any distinct properties of real things, but always merely a manner of presenting them by means of ideas..

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Physics has ascended to summits hitherto visible only to philosophers, whose gaze has, however, not always been free from metaphysical haziness.

Moritz Schlick

Moritz Schlick

Moritz Schlick

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Born: April 14, 1882

Died: June 22, 1936 (aged 54)

Bio: Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick was a German philosopher, physicist, and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle.

Known for:

General theory of knowledge
Problems of ethics
Space and time in contemporary physics
Allgemeine erkenntnislehre (1918)

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