What is logical empiricism?
• http://www.bun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~suchii/philsci_j2.html • Bayesian Modeling in the Social Sciences: an introduction to Markov chain Monte Carlo, materials from 10 hours of lectures given to the ICPSR Summer School on Quantitative Methods, July 1999 PDF (3M) by Simon Jackman • At http://jackman.stanford.edu/papers.shtml • At http://jackman.stanford.edu/mcmc/icpsr99.pdf • On Science, Scientific Method And Evolution Of Scientific Thought: A Philosophy Of Science Perspective Of Quasi-Experimentation • http://www.brint.com/papers/science.htm • “Logical Empiricism Essentially, Carnap replaced the concept of verification with the idea of “gradually increasing confirmation” (1953, p. 48). He argued that if verification is taken to mean the “complete and definitive establishment of truth,” then universal statements can never be verified. However, they may be “confirmed” by the accumulation of successful empirical tests. Thus, science progresses through the accumulation of multiple confirming ins
