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Born on April 14, 1882 to a wealthy family in Berlin.
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Schlick, Moritz. Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre. J. Springer,, 1918, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015069584285. The intial publication of his work that would provide the outline of the General Theory of Knowledge.
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The General Theory of Knowledge was worked on heavily by the Vienna Circle between the years of 1918 - 1925. For a better understanding, please view this explanatory video. It provides a general overview of his work and the theory.
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He led a group of scientists and philosophers calling themselves the Ernst Mach, later renamed the Vienna Circle. Notable members included Rudolf Carnap, Herbert Feigl, Kurt Godel, Otto Neurath, and Friedrich Waismann. It was in this group that Schlick would begin his Theory of Knowledge, or Logical Positivism.
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The foundation of the Logical Positivism change was that all things, if not able to be perceived directly by a sensory input, than the fact of the item was empirical at best. As an example, your car is in the garage and you are in the living room. You cannot say that your car is factually in the garage, only that that is where you last saw your car and it may in fact be missing.
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His death was an act of murder performed by a former student at the university he was a professor of while ascending the steps to his class.
