biography
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Waismann, Friedrich
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pronunciation:
[viysman]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1896–1959)
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| biography:
| Philosopher, born in Vienna, Austria. He became a prominent member of the Vienna Circle, along with Carnap and Schlick, and later taught at Cambridge and Oxford. He argued that most empirical concepts have an ‘open texture’, in that we cannot completely foresee all the possible conditions in which they might properly be used, and therefore even empirical statements cannot be fully verified by observation. His main philosophical works include The Principles of Linguistic Philosophy (1965) and How I See Philosophy (1968). |
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