Synopsis:
- Program to derive scientific knowledge (knowledge of the physical world) by logical construction starting from our sensory experience
- The fundamental elements of knowledge are the qualia ("red"), which are global and immediate experiences: subjectivity
- From subjectivity one derives physical objects (logical constructions from the sense data)
- From physical objects one can derive the intersubjective level, and then the sociocultural level
- Metaphysics, instead, is only a form of art
- Experience comes as wholes, not as items
- Construction of the world arises from the experienced events of a lifetime
- The meaning of a proposition is its method of verification
- Truth is coherence within a set of beliefs
- A language is defined by
- a set of formation rules that specify if a sequence of symbols is a valid sentence in that language
- and a set of transformation rules that allow to transform one valid sentence into another valid sentence
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