The Search for Truth What is metaphysics? The question itself is a study in the answer, as to question the meaning of truth is to compare and contrast it to all that we perceive from our senses as ‘real.’ The principle of verifiability was at the core of Logical Positivism, the movement that sought to apply logic and the methodology of the empirical sciences to all fields of thought. It states that a theory, or …showed first 75 words of 1684 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1684 total…discount metaphysics, although that in itself was not the road he would have chosen to take. Metaphysics was, for Popper, merely the stepping stone for formulating those ‘testable propositions’; the beginning of the journey for true meaning. The only way to come close to defining the true meaning of a statement is to test, ask further questions and use both falsification and verification as a means to get closer to (not, ultimately, find) the truth.