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Uitgever Berlin : Julius Springer, 1925. Orig. printed wrappers. x,375 pp. Lower spine sl. frayed. Very good copy. Conditie: goed

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Extra informatie - Moritz Schlick (1882-1936), German philosopher and founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle, had worked on his Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre (General Theory of Knowledge) between 1918 and 1925, and, though later developments in his philosophy were to make various contentions of his epistemology untenable, the General Theory is an acute reasoning against synthetic a priori knowledge. This critique of synthetic a priori knowledge argues that the only truths which are self-evident to reason are statements which are true as a matter of definition, such as the statements of formal logic and mathematics. The truth of all other statements must be evaluated with reference to empirical evidence. If a statement is proposed which is not a matter of definition, and not capable of being confirmed or falsified by evidence, that statement is "metaphysical", which is synonymous with "meaningless", or "nonsense". This is the principle upon which members of the Vienna Circle were most clearly in agreement with each other, as well as with Wittgenstein. This is the revised and augmented 2nd edition, being the definitive edition of Schlick's greatest work.