new position on semantics,
in which the meaning of a sentence is identified with its mode of verification
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syntactic analysis,
is advocated, yielding a classification of meaningful sentences as analytic synthetic or contradictory
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scientific statements:
must be synthetic and empirically verifiable
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philosophical statements:
must be analytic, are therefore about language and best presented in "the formal mode", i.e. explicitly about language |
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metaphysics,
is a term of abuse applied to anything which is neither verifiable nor analytic, and henceforth is synonymous with meaningless
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