They do so, according to the critics, by making the truth of our beliefs consist in their verifiability, and their verifiability in the way in which they do work for us.
Pratt attributes to abstract trueness over concreteverifiability in an idea, and I wish that he might be moved to explain.
Thus verifiability depends upon our capacity for acquiring knowledge, and not only upon the objective truth.
Now verifiability is by no means the same thing as truth; it is, in fact, something far more subjective and psychological.
That such series exist is an empirical fact, which constitutes the verifiability of physics.
The question of verifiability is in essence this: can we discover any set of beliefs which are never mistaken or any test which, when applicable, will always enable us to discriminate between true and false beliefs?
Many difficult problems arise as regards the verifiabilityof beliefs.
It is through this question of verifiability and empirical applicability to experience that we are led to a theory of matter such as I advocate.
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