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Birth
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Published Space and Time in Contemporary Physics
This book was focused on the philosophic introduction to the new physics of relativity. It approaches and tries to define the principle of relativity, spatial relativity, geometry and physics in experience, the relativity of motion, and the relativity of space. -
Published General Theory of Knowledge
One of Schlick’s most influential books, it rebels against the normal concepts of contemporary philosophical theories. His views were that in order for science to be possible there must first be a language and meaning associated with it. Just because someone has knowledge and confidence it does not make them right. This book goes on to question what knowledge you need in order to perceive something as fact and even if it appears to be fact, it is? -
Started career as a professor
Took a position as the Professor of the Philosophy of Inductive Science at the University of Vienna. -
Wrote essay on “Meaning and Verification”
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Death
Assassinated by a student. Also when the Vienna Circle discontinued their meetings. -
Citations
"Moritz Schlick." AZQuotes.com. Wind and Fly LTD, 2019. 18 November 2019. https://www.azquotes.com/author/46136-Moritz_Schlick Oberdan, Thomas, "Moritz Schlick", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2017 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2017/entries/schlick/. Mattey, G. J. “Schlick on Meaning and Verification.” Schlick on Meaning and Verification, 2005, pp. 1–8.,
http://hume.ucdavis.edu/mattey/phi156/schlickslides_ho.pdf. -
Citations Continued
Quote retrieved from: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/216822.Moritz_Schlick -
Video of Moritz Schlick
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Quote by Mortiz Schlick
“Philosophy is that activity by which the meaning of propositions is established or discovered; it is a question of what the propositions actually mean. The content, soul, and spirit of science naturally consist in what is ultimately meant by its sentences; the philosophical activity of rendering significant is thus the alpha and omega of all scientific knowledge. [Moritz Schlick interpreting Ludwig Wittgenstein's position]”
― Moritz Schlick
