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  1. The doctrine that the only meaningful
  2. propositions are those that can be verified
  3. empirically. Metaphysics, religion, and
  4. aesthetics are therefore meaningless. It was
  5. characteristic of the Vienna Circle in the
  6. 1920s and 1930s, and was influenced by
  7. Friedrich Frege, Bertrand Russell, and Ludwig
  8. Wittgenstein.
  9.