The concrete benefits of these programs, which are empirically verifiable, should trump abstract theoretical objections.
Though the voice of God may not be empirically verifiable, the fruit of the communication often is.
Even those like Chomsky who are on the proto-anarchist left of this tradition like to maintain that their theories are empirically verifiable and rooted in reality.
According to this theory, synthetic statements—statements that are not true, or false, merely by virtue of the meanings of their terms ("All bachelors are unmarried")—are cognitively meaningful only if they are empirically verifiable, at least in principle.
The concrete benefits of these programs, which are empirically verifiable, should trump abstract theoretical objections.But there aren't any "anti-paternalist" objections to making organ donation the default or featuring healthy food in cafeterias, because these ideas have nothing to do with paternalism.I mean, what could organ donation possibly have to do with paternalism?
The empiricist criterion of meaning itself does not seem to be a statement that expresses the formal relation of ideas, nor does it appear to be empirically verifiable.
The outcome was Verificationism, a view which asserts only the statements that are empirically verifiable are cognitively meaningful; in other words, statements or philosophical propositions must be either true (verifiable) or false (falsifiable); otherwise they are meaningless and nonscientific.
There may be special circumstances in which moral statements admit of analytical truth or falsity, just as there are significant cases where moral statements are empirically verifiable and can be claimed to be probably true or probably false.
To determine whether a synthetic statement is meaningful, the Vienna Circle developed a verifiability theory of meaning, which proposed that for a synthetic statement to have cognitive meaning, its truthfulness must be empirically verifiable.
Author or editor affiliations with CTTs had to be empirically verifiable (typically from the CTT websites, where they were listed as board members, advisors, experts, etc).
