verifiˈcationist, a. and n.
[f. verification + -ist.]
A. adj. Of, pertaining to, or supporting verificationism. B. n. An adherent or supporter of verificationism.
| 1940 Mind XLIX. 456 He [sc. Eddington] is as empirically ‘verificationist’ as any Logical Positivist. 1941 Mind L. 163 Most verificationists contend that realism is meaningless. 1952 R. M. Hare Lang. Morals i. 8 The so-called ‘verificationist’ theory of meaning. 1956 J. O. Urmson Philos. Anal. xi. 169 If..the verificationist takes the line that the verification principle is a rule of language for the use of the word ‘meaningful’..it is a hard saying. 1980 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 Oct. 1181/5 How far such verificationist arguments are sound..depends on questions of meaning. |