Principles of verifiability and falsifiability
In order to understand the principle of verifiability, one must first understand the criterion of meaning. The criterion of meaning says that a statement is meaningful is and only if it is empirically or logically verifiable. Both the principle of verification and falsification have there basis on trying to prove or discredit the truth. Many philosophers, both past and present, have spent countless time arguing for one principle over the other.
Before verification was pronounced as an actually principle, experiments were used to test whether or not a theory was true. During the time of Galileo, it was a known fact that water in a pump barrel would not lift any higher that thirty four feet. Though out time the experimental method was used to prove the truthfulness of the water height to give an explanation for such a thing. A student of Galileo’s. Toricella concluded that the air pressure explains why the water would only go as......
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