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This view can be understood from Carnap’s works in two different ways:
# Numbered list item1 Strict Verification – a scientific proposition should be completely and directly testable through elementary experience. # Numbered list item2 Verifiable in Principle – a softer approach, stating that a scientific proposition is required to be conceptually testable, and is scientific even if no verifying or negating experience have been observed.
Different segments in the Aufbau can be understood either as strict or principally verifiable. Challenges with strict verification caused Carnap to drop this view later, as uncorroborated theories were considered unscientific.
