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School of philosophy risen in Austria and Germany during 1920s,
primarily concerned with the logical analysis of scientific knowledge.
Among its members were Moritz Schlick, Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach,
Herbert Feigl, Philipp Frank, Kurt Grelling, Hans Hahn, Carl Gustav
Hempel, Victor Kraft, Otto Neurath, Friedrich Waismann.
Logical positivists denied the soundness of metaphysics and traditional
philosophy; they asserted that many philosophical problems are indeed
meaningless.
According to logical positivism, there are only two sources of
knowledge: logical reasoning and empirical experience. The former
is analytic a priori, while the latter is synthetic a posteriori;
hence synthetic a priori does not exist. The fundamental thesis
of logical positivism consists in denying the possibility of synthetic
a priori knowledge; you can see an explicit disagreement with
Kantian philosophy.
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