Consider the following statements with reference to logical positivism and mark the correct answer:
1. Strong verification requires that to be meaningful a statement should be verifiable or falsifiable by direct confrontation with experience.
2. Logical positivism employs verifiability as the criterion of meaning.
3. Strong verification requires both direct and indirect methods of verifiability.

A. Only (1) is true

B. (1) and (2) are true

C. Only (3) is true

D. (1) and (3) are true

Answer: Option B