ABSTRACT

The author discusses the connexion with the principle of verifiability, which is independent of either form I or form II. This concerns the distinction between 'weak' and 'strong' verifiability. It is author's intention to show that this supposed distinction is a pseudo one that there is in point of fact no distinction between 'strong verifiability' and 'weak verifiability', not because 'strong verifiability' and 'weak verifiability' mean the same but because they are so used that they have no meaning at all. In order not to prejudice what follows with respect to the version which one may hold with regard to the principle of verifiability, author use the term 'statement', rather than either 'proposition' or 'sentence'. It might be supposed that no k'-statement S could be weakly verifiable unless it were verifiable conclusively, at least in theory.