Logical Positivist Ice Skating

At the heart of logical positivism was a novel way of dismissing certain non-scientific views by declaring them not merely wrong or false, but meaningless. According to the verification theory of meaning, sometimes also called the empiricist theory of meaning, any non-tautological statement has meaning if and only if it can be empirically verified.

—Aaron Preston, "Analytic Philosophy," Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Please let me introduce myself:
My name is Robert Ralph,
better known as "Rob the Ockhamist",
your trusted logical positivist.

Bored on this winter day,
I go outside to play,
and as I see a snowflake,
my thoughts begin to quake.

To say that "snowflakes
are white as angels"
would not be valid.
In fact, it would be
rather mystical and pallid.

Snowflakes are ice crystals,
not spirits in flight.
Contrary to appearance,
they're clear and not white.

It is true that it is snowing,
for it is false that it is not.
But to believe in a Winter Wonderland
is to have lost the plot!