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Logical Positivism
An overview of Logical Positivism and it’s impact on science and the issue of verifiability. Logical Positivism attempted a systematic reduction of human knowledge to logical and scientific foundations. Because the resulting logical positivism (or "logical empiricism") allowed only for the use of logical tautologies and first-person observations from experience, it dismissed as nonsense the metaphysical and normative pretensions of the philosophical tradition.
go to the website: http://www.philosophypages.com/hy/6q.htm
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