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Stroud I 199f
Verificationism/Carnap: we cannot understand anything that cannot be proven true or false. - StroudVs: this failed, even as the attempt to pick out the empirically verifiable sentences. - Problem: verification methods and sentences that somehow involved "theory". - Or "inferred entities". - ((s)> Theoretical entities).
Stroud: but our concepts and our minds are not so strictly tied to "sensory experience". - (VsLogical Positivism). >Positivism.
Solution: verificationism would have had to explain how we confirm our belief by experience. - That did not work.
Then skepticism would have been defeated.
Verification principle (V.P.) and skepticism have the same problem. How our beliefs are empirically confirmed. >Confirmation.
Skepticism is not refuted by the verification principle if we do not know if we are dreaming. >Skepticism.

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