Explain the logical positivist’ reasons for claiming that all metaphysics is meaningless.

Explain the logical positivist’ reasons for claiming that all metaphysics is meaningless.

After reading chapter 9 of the textbook, Philosophy the Power of Ideas, answer the following questions. Each answer should be at a minimum 1 paragraph, while others may be several paragraphs in length. The grade of A (72-80 out of 80 points) will only be assigned to exemplary submissions, which demonstrate extensive thought and effort in completion of the assignment.
Please note: there are only two sources for you answers: the textbook and your mind! Any information taken from other sources is unacceptable. Plagiarism of the thoughts or ideas of others be it from books or the Internet will result in a zero on the assignment and your final course grade being dropped by a full letter grade.

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1) Explain the logical positivist’ reasons for claiming that all metaphysics is meaningless.
2) Explain and evaluate the main ideas of john Dewey’s instrumentalism.,
3) Explain and evaluate William James’ notion that you can “will yourself to believe and idea”.
4) Explain and evaluate the connections between language and science as discussed by Frege and Russell.
5) Explain and evaluate the main ideas of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
6) Explain and evaluate the views of Saul Kripke.
7) Explain the notion of ontology and presented in the textbook.
8) Explain and evaluate the main views of philosophy of mind as discussed in the textbook.
9) Compare and contrast views of William James and C.S. Peirce.