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Verificationist Man



Caption: "In a world rife with metaphysical speculation, only one man has the intellect, courage, and commitment to verifiable science to do stop it... " Caption: "...also, he was the only one who was a big enough nerd to care so much about stuff like that." Caption: "He was, Principle of Verification Man!" Description: It is Rudolph Carnap in a cape. Carnap: "Hooray for science!" Leibniz: "Mind and body coincide not due to causation, but because of a pre-established harmony ordained by God." Carnap, slapping him: "That statement has no empirical content that can be verified by the sense, so it is...nonsense!" Kant: "Reality is in itself unknowable, we can only observe the phenomenal world." Carnap, slapping him: "Nonsense!" Whitehead: "Reality consists of processes rather than material objects." Schlick: "Only statements that are empirically verifiable are cognitively meaningful." Carnap, slapping him: "Nonsense!" Schlick: "Carnap, what are you doing? That's our theory!" Carnap: "Wait...shit, no, hold on..."
Wait a minute, I don't care that at all, because the verification principle isn't making a metaphysical claim it is making a suggestion about how we should talk about things.

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