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Schlick, Moritz (mō`rĭts shlĭk), 1882–1936, German philosopher, b. Berlin, grad. Univ. of Berlin (1904). He taught at Rostock and Kiel before he became (1922) professor of the philosophy of inductive sciences at the Univ. of Vienna; there he was the leader of the Vienna Circle, a group of logical positivists (see logical positivism logical positivism, also known as logical or scientific empiricism, modern school of philosophy that attempted to introduce the methodology and precision of mathematics and the natural sciences into the field of philosophy.
..... Click the link for more information. ). Influenced by Ludwig Wittgenstein Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann (loŏt`vĭkh yō`zĕf yō`hän vĭt`gənshtīn)
..... Click the link for more information. and Rudolf Carnap Carnap, Rudolf (kär`näp, –năp), 1891–1970, German-American philosopher. He taught philosophy at the Univ.
..... Click the link for more information. . Schlick emphasized experience as the means of establishing the truth of claims to knowledge. His works include General Theory of Knowledge (2d ed. 1925) and Problems of Ethics (tr. 1939).