1882 – 1936
Moritz Schlick was an Austrian-German philosopher and the founding figure of the Vienna Circle, a group central to logical positivism. He made significant contributions to the philosophy of science, epistemology, and the interpretation of modern physics, particularly relativity theory. His verification principle of meaning became a cornerstone of logical empiricism.
Founded the Vienna Circle, the intellectual center of logical positivism
Developed the verifiability criterion of meaning
Provided early philosophical interpretations of Einstein's general theory of relativity
Authored 'General Theory of Knowledge' (Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre), a major epistemological work
Advanced the distinction between form and content in scientific theories
Reichenbach was not able to recognize the Weyl method as other than an equivalent account of empirical determination of the metric
claimWe must distinguish between the radical empiricist's meaning of 'meaning' (epistemic reduction) and a more common-sensical meaning of 'meaning' (factual reference).
claimMetric geometry is neither true nor false.