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What is logical positivism? How is legitimate science consistent with logical positivism? Explain your answer.

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Logical positivism arrived during the 20th Century, which strived to make philosophy a criterion by means of evaluating truth and false statements. The main criteria in which it thrives are verifiability, empirical statements and analytic truth, which all come from science. This greatly influenced science in and of itself due to stressing logic, philosophy in regards to ...

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