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Verificationist Man
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![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.
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..."](http://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/VerificationistMan.png)
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.
Philosophers in this comic:
Rudolf Carnap,
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz,
Immanuel Kant,
Alfred North Whitehead,
Moritz Schlick
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