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Complete a Protocol Statement of Support (PSOS) form for the appropriate Clinical Research Group CRGG).
This is the so-called Neurath Principle: in the face of conflict between a protocol and theoretical statements, the cancellation of a protocol statement is a methodological possibility as well (Neurath 1932/1983, 95, Haller 1982).
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Even the empirical character of protocol statements could not be pure and primitive, as physicalism allowed the introduction of theoretical non-perception terms.
Far from Carnap's atomic sort of protocol statements, Neurath's model manifested a distinctive complexity of terms and structure ("aggregations").
The example of advertisement suggests that desirability of the usage or decision cannot be determined just by the emphasis on visual language, physicalist protocol statements, or science alone.
The empirical genealogy expressed by protocols was the linguistic expression of empiricism that identified protocol statements as epistemological special units in the system of statements that would constitute objective scientific knowledge.
Consider that his complex conception of the form of protocol statements (1932b) explicated the concept of observational evidence in terms that expressly reflected debts to empirical assumptions which called for theoretical elaboration in turn.
The form, role and status of protocol statements thus became the topic of an important philosophical debate in the early 1930s involving logical-empiricist philosophers such as Carnap, Moritz Schlick, Edgar Zilsel and Otto Neurath, and others such as Karl Popper.
In addition, Neurath's theory of protocol statements also makes clear that his understanding of physicalism did not entail the eliminative reduction of the phenomenon of intentionality but, like Carnap (1932c), merely sought its integration into empiricist discourse.
In 1934 Schlick proposed to treat the claims motivating protocol statements, left by Neurath with the status of little more than mere hypotheses, as key to the foundation of knowledge.
He later reported that in his philosophical work he had "started from and returned to the discussion of protocol statements in the Vienna Circle" ("Concluding Unphilosophical Conversation", in Munévar (1991), p. 526).
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