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Positivism, philosophy: modern positivism represents the demand to trace back statements with a claim to explanation to differences which can be ascertained in the objects of investigation. What is ascertainable is, in this case, relativized to a framework theory and its methods. This is intended to exclude foreign and non-verifiable statements. See also empiricism, internal/external, truth, provability.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Hennig Genz on Positivism - Dictionary of Arguments

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Logical Positivism/Mach/Genz: logical positivism evolved from Mach's notions of not trying to get "behind the apparitions".
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Theoretical Terms/TT/PositivismVsTheoretical Terms/positivism/Genz: thesis: terms must correspond to things.
>Theoretical terms
, >Theoretical entities, >Theory language, >Reality, >Observation, >Observability, >Unobservables.
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Positivism/Genz: positivism only regained momentum with the Copenhagen interpretation.
>Copenhagen Interpretation.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Gz I
H. Genz
Gedankenexperimente Weinheim 1999

Gz II
Henning Genz
Wie die Naturgesetze Wirklichkeit schaffen. Über Physik und Realität München 2002


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