Verify and peer review your beliefs?
In a culture where truth itself has come into question, we must pay careful attention to the assumptions people make in support of their preferred beliefs. In this, we examine the so-called “verification principle.” What was the Achilles’ heel of the principle of verification? The principle of verification has been pretty much discarded by analytical philosophers. Why? What’s wrong with the principle of verification? Let me tell you the principle of verification: “The only meaningful truth is a truth which can be verified either analytically or empirically.” Hm? It’s very easy, so obvious it bites you if it were a snake. There is a principle that the original founders missed completely at the beginning. Their whole philosophy rests on what principle? The truth of the verification of principle. Can the verification principle be verified empirically? Is the verification principle analytically true? If a guy stands up and says the only thing that is true ...