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Logical positivism Moderate

Origin: Greek suffix -ism

Logical positivism has 2 different meanings across 1 category:

Noun

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Noun
1

the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation)

2

A 20th-century school of philosophy which held that all knowledge is based on logical inferences from empirical observations.

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empiricism
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ism oism jism wuism agism meism prism yoism quism reism weism tuism ovism idism grism deism seism icism zoism owlism
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