Viennese philosophical discussion group (1924-1936) led by Moritz Schlick that developed logical empiricism — the application of mathematical logic to scientific philosophy and the verificationist criterion of meaning.
Verificationism: the meaning of a statement is its method of empirical verification; metaphysical statements are meaningless. Unified science: all genuine scientific knowledge should be expressible in a single physicalist language. Dissolved by the murder of Schlick and Nazi pressure.
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