Five Minute Philosophy.
"The meaning of a
proposition is the method of its verification."
'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.' (General Theory of Knowledge)
- Friedrich Albert Moritz
Schlick (1882 - 1936).
Schlick
was part of the group "First Vienna Circle" and the founding fathers
of Logical positivism. He was leaving a University building for another class
when a former student of his, Johann Nelbock approached him and then pulled out
a pistol and shot him. Nelbock claimed that Schlick's anti-metaphysical
philosophy had "interfered with his moral restraint". After the
annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938 the assassin was released on
license after serving 2 years of a 10 year sentence.
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