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...ks?id=HDOuKjMc0AEC&q=Thomas+Kuhn's+%22linguistic+turn%22+and+the+legacy+of+logical+empiricism}}</ref> ...then the sum of their probabilities is equal to the probability of their [[Logical disjunction|disjunction]]: <math>\bigg\{ \Pr \left ( h_1 \right ) + \Pr \le ...

...plines, including [[Ethics|moral philosophy]] and [[decision theory]]. The logical properties that preferences possess also have major effects on [[rational c ...ries felt comfortable theorizing about utility, with the advent of logical positivism in the 20th century, they felt they needed a more empirical structure. Beca ...

...Earl Conee and Richard Feldman.<ref name="Kelly" /> Russell, Quine and the logical positivists belong to the empiricist tradition and hold that evidence consi ...r to confirm or disconfirm a pre-existing hypothesis.<ref name="Kelly"/> [[Logical positivists]], on the other hand, held that this priority is ''semantic'' i ...

{{defn |1=A logical rule stating that if a proposition implies another, then adding any additio {{defn |1=A logical fallacy where a proposition is considered true because it has not been prov ...

...Further, the language of mathematics allows economists to make specific, [[positivism|positive]] claims about controversial or contentious subjects that would be ...ions can be explored mathematically for their consequences and for their [[logical consistency|consistency]] with other assumptions.<ref> ...