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Background: The Probability Theory of Meaning Background: The Probability Theory of Meaning
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Reichenbach's Cubical World Argument Reichenbach's Cubical World Argument
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“Illata” versus “Abstracta” “Illata” versus “Abstracta”
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Just “the Difference between Two Languages”? Just “the Difference between Two Languages”?
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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12 Hans Reichenbach: Realist and Verificationist
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Published:September 2001
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Abstract
By focusing on Reichenbach’s 1938 Experience and Prediction, Putnam argues against the claim that logical positivism represented a unified ideological viewpoint. It is a vast oversimplification, Putnam shows, to suppose that every logical positivist held that all meaningful statements are either empirically verifiable statements about sense data or else purely formal stipulations. Reichenbach, in particular, defended a form of commonsense realism, while at the same time criticizing foundational or metaphysical Realism. Thus for Putnam the most crucial philosophical questions about logical positivism concern, not a unique theory of meaning, but the particular assumptions about rationality, meaning and objectivity which each positivist brought to bear in arguing against metaphysical doctrines.
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