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Childhood
Born on April 14th 1882 in Berlin, Germany. He grew up as the son of a factory worker. -
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Early Education
In 1904, at the age 26, Schlick graduated with his PhD. in Physics. His studies allowed him to work along side of Max Planck, a well know theoretical physicist. A year later he ventured to Zurich and took up the study of Philosophy. -
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Rostock & Keil & Concept Formation
Schlick obtained a teaching position at Rostock before shortly transferring to Keil where he taught for 10 years. During this time he completed “The Boundaries of Scientific and Philosophical Concept-Formation” where he discusses how individual sciences are demarcated by specific qualities and drawing the relation to science and math. He also wrote an essay on “The Nature of Truth in Modern Logic” that ".[2] -
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Intuition & Conceptual Knowledge
Schlick was much like Helmholtz in his understanding of intuition as he sees it as 'fully naturalized', though this contrast of concept and intuition are slightly reminiscent of Kant. When he expresses his theory he uses the example of seeing something in the distance, seeing its an animal, as it approaches you identify it as a dog, then closer it is identified as the dog "Fritz". -
Vienna Circle
Schlick became the instructor of Philosophy of Inductive Science at the University of Vienna in 1922 and created the Vienna Circle two years later. As Boltzmann and Mach believed, Schlick also saw the flaws in philosophy when based in metaphysics. This was the beginning of logical positivism, later referred to as logical empiricism. -
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Theory
He was focused on using empirical evidence and symbolic logic to create a theory of knowledge. Many other great minds worked with him in the Vienna Circle. -
Principle of Verification
The principle of verification was the idea that the meaningful content of any statement should reflect that steps it takes to prove it. This was a huge part of logical empiricism. According to quantum mechanics, how you test something is just as important as the verification. -
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Progression of thought
"When the elements of judgments are initially identified, they are grasped qualitatively, as sensory impressions, like the visual image of a particular dog or the memory image of a horse."[2] Moritz uses this imagery to represent the progression of thought process when dealing with scientific theories throughout time. -
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Untimely Death
Unfortunately Mortz was murdered by one of the mentally insane students at Vienna putting an end to the Vienna Circle.
