And some verification professionals have long worried that such an exception would make the rest of the treaty hard to monitor.Naval concerns played a part in the review, but otherwise administration officials deny that their judgment on verifiability was made on anything other than technical grounds.
Russell and the important philosopher of science Karl Popper further stressed the unjustifiability of the principle of induction, and Popper criticized theories of knowledge based upon empirical verification (see verifiability principle).
In this work, following Wittgenstein and the members of the Vienna Circle, Ayer defended a verificationist theory of meaning (also called the verifiability principle), according to which an utterance is meaningful only if it expresses a proposition the truth or falsehood of which can be verified (at least in principle) through experience.
Focusing as they did on scientific discourse, the logical positivists went so far as to claim that an utterance is meaningful only if it is a tautology or such that it can be confirmed or disconfirmed (in principle) through experience; all other utterances are literally nonsense (see verifiability principle).
A non-tautological sentence is meaningful, according to their slogan, just in case it is possible (at least in principle) to verify it empirically; indeed, the meaning of such a sentence just is its method of verification (see verifiability principle).
"These actions represent the first time in nearly a decade Iran has verifiability enacted measures to halt progress on its nuclear programme" said the White House spokesman, Jay Carney.
The most noteworthy, and also most controversial, contribution of the logical positivists was the so-called verifiability criterion of factual meaningfulness.
The original version formulated in terms of verifiability was replaced by a more tolerant version expressed in terms of testability or confirmability.
The threefold test reminded thinkers that the basis, verifiability, and applicability of any proposition must be analyzed; the fourfold standard reminded thinkers that one should always assess the benefits any proposition could bring to the country and the people.
She does not put a fine point on the verifiability of the novel's events.
The verifiability of journalism is its crucial and indispensable social function, and is precisely the limit that keeps it from becoming art.
