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