Moritz schlick philosophy quotes

Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick (April 14, 1882 – June 22, 1936) was a German philosopher, physicist and the founding father of logical positivism and the Vienna Circle.

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Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre, 1925

Moritz Schlick, Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre, Berlin 1925,

• The 'physical' does not mean any particular kind of reality, but a particular kind of denoting reality, namely a system of concepts in the natural sciences which is necessary for the cognition of reality.

  Physics has ascended to summits hitherto visible only to philosophers, whose gaze has, however, not always been free from metaphysical haziness.

• Physics has ascended to summits hitherto visible only to philosophers, whose gaze has, however, not always been free from metaphysical haziness.
• Philosophy is that activity by which the meaning of propositions is established or discovered; it is a question of what the propositions actually mean.
• Moritz Schlick Quotes .
• The 'physical' does not mean any particular kind of reality, but a particular kind of denoting reality, namely a system of concepts in the natural sciences.
• Moritz Schlick quote: Philosophy is that activity by which the meaning of propositions is established or discovered.

'The physical' should not be interpreted wrongly as an attribute of one part of reality, but not of the other ; it is rather a word denoting a kind of conceptual construction, as, e.g., the markers 'geographical' or 'mathematical', which denote not any distinct properties of real things, but always merely a manner of presenting them by means of ideas.

• p. 27 i. ; as cited in: Adam Schaff (1962). Introduction to semantics, p. 83

• Philosophy is not a system of proposit