Hypothesis and Verificationism

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Difference between Hypothesis and Verificationism

Hypothesis vs. Verificationism

A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon. Verificationism, also known as the verification idea or the verifiability criterion of meaning, is the philosophical doctrine that only statements that are empirically verifiable (i.e. verifiable through the senses) are cognitively meaningful, or else they are truths of logic (tautologies).

Similarities between Hypothesis and Verificationism

Hypothesis and Verificationism have 6 things in common (in Unionpedia): Carl Gustav Hempel, Falsifiability, Karl Popper, Logical positivism, Reductionism, The Logic of Scientific Discovery.

Carl Gustav Hempel

Carl Gustav "Peter" Hempel (January 8, 1905 – November 9, 1997) was a German writer and philosopher.

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Falsifiability

A statement, hypothesis, or theory has falsifiability (or is falsifiable) if it can logically be proven false by contradicting it with a basic statement.

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Karl Popper

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian-British philosopher and professor.

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Logical positivism

Logical positivism and logical empiricism, which together formed neopositivism, was a movement in Western philosophy whose central thesis was verificationism, a theory of knowledge which asserted that only statements verifiable through empirical observation are cognitively meaningful.

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Reductionism

Reductionism is any of several related philosophical ideas regarding the associations between phenomena which can be described in terms of other simpler or more fundamental phenomena.

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The Logic of Scientific Discovery

The Logic of Scientific Discovery is a 1959 book about the philosophy of science by Karl Popper.

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Hypothesis and Verificationism Comparison

Hypothesis has 91 relations, while Verificationism has 92. As they have in common 6, the Jaccard index is 3.28% = 6 / (91 + 92).

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