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but you do not entirely understand, ask yourself what would tend to show
that the sentence was true or that it was false.
The Verification Theory is thus an epistemic account of meaning; that is,
it locates meaning in our ways of coming to know or finding out things. To
a verificationist, a sentence's meaning is its epistemology, a matter of what
its proper evidence base would be. (On one interpretation, the Sellarsian
functional or Inferential Theory of Meaning mentioned in chapter 6 is verifi-
cationist, as Sellars' inference rules are epistemic devices.)
The positivists allowed that there is a special class of sentences that do
not have empirical content but are nonetheless meaningful in a way: these
are sentences that are, so to speak, true by definition, true solely in virtue
of the meanings of the terms that compose them. "No bachelor is married";
"If it's snowing, then it's snowing"; "Five pencils are more pencils than
two pencils
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