The Subject Matter of Psychology

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HE coordination of both logical syntax and * methodological analysis of scientific language by scientific empiricism (logical positivism) has achieved a twofold result: (.) ' I. Elimination of philosophical pseudo-problems and purification of the empirical sciences from the biases engendered in them by these problems. 2. Creation of an instrument apt for exact formulation, location, and analysis of the real meaning of the valid philosophical issues. While in the earlier phases of the logico-positivistic movement the first of these two major achievements has been particularly hailed by its students and likewise resented by its opponents, emphasis now has shifted towards the second. Language analysis shows that