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Reply to comment by Daotar in Logical positivism does not dispense with metaphysics, as it aimed to. It merely proposes a different kind of metaphysics, in which natural sciences take the privileged position once occupied by rationalist metaphysics. by IAI_Admin
excellent. yeah that's spot on
wow-signal t1_iu0gl49 wrote
Reply to comment by Daotar in Logical positivism does not dispense with metaphysics, as it aimed to. It merely proposes a different kind of metaphysics, in which natural sciences take the privileged position once occupied by rationalist metaphysics. by IAI_Admin
i'm not aware of any contemporary philosophers who accept the verification criterion of meaning, though i'm sure there are a curmudgeon or two out there
wow-signal t1_iu0ga14 wrote
Reply to comment by Daotar in Logical positivism does not dispense with metaphysics, as it aimed to. It merely proposes a different kind of metaphysics, in which natural sciences take the privileged position once occupied by rationalist metaphysics. by IAI_Admin
could you name a prominent philosopher who endorses the verification criterion of meaning?
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Reply to comment by WildIsland-S-E in Logical positivism does not dispense with metaphysics, as it aimed to. It merely proposes a different kind of metaphysics, in which natural sciences take the privileged position once occupied by rationalist metaphysics. by IAI_Admin
logical positivism != logical analysis (fortunately!)
logical positivism is a constellation of views about knowledge and meaning which centers around the idea of identifying the meaning of a content-bearer (e.g. a statement about the color of grass) with its 'empirical content' (e.g. a certain kind of visual experience). it's just a theory (or more accurately, a theoretical temperament) like any other
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Reply to comment by Interesting_Mood_124 in Logical positivism does not dispense with metaphysics, as it aimed to. It merely proposes a different kind of metaphysics, in which natural sciences take the privileged position once occupied by rationalist metaphysics. by IAI_Admin
there may be a few experts here too, you never know 🫢
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Reply to comment by Kyocus in Logical positivism does not dispense with metaphysics, as it aimed to. It merely proposes a different kind of metaphysics, in which natural sciences take the privileged position once occupied by rationalist metaphysics. by IAI_Admin
very welcome! SEP is an incredible resource
wow-signal t1_itwnt01 wrote
Reply to comment by Interesting_Mood_124 in Logical positivism does not dispense with metaphysics, as it aimed to. It merely proposes a different kind of metaphysics, in which natural sciences take the privileged position once occupied by rationalist metaphysics. by IAI_Admin
it'd probably be worth learning about this yourself. here's a great place to start: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-empiricism/
wow-signal t1_itwlutv wrote
Reply to comment by Interesting_Mood_124 in Logical positivism does not dispense with metaphysics, as it aimed to. It merely proposes a different kind of metaphysics, in which natural sciences take the privileged position once occupied by rationalist metaphysics. by IAI_Admin
it's historically significant in the way that alchemy is historically significant, and some influence does live on, especially among a certain generation of scientists who unwittingly absorbed the central ideas from faculty while they were in graduate school, but as john passmore wrote in 1967, "logical positivism is dead, or as dead as a philosophical movement ever becomes." by that he meant that the central tenets, most significantly the verification criterion of meaning, had been demonstrated to be false.
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Reply to Logical positivism does not dispense with metaphysics, as it aimed to. It merely proposes a different kind of metaphysics, in which natural sciences take the privileged position once occupied by rationalist metaphysics. by IAI_Admin
within professional philosophy logical positivism has been discredited since at latest the 60s
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Reply to Bruno Latour posed a major challenge to modern philosophy’s key assumption - a distinction between the human subject and the world. Philosophy as a field is yet to properly understand the importance of his contribution | Graham Harman. by IAI_Admin
there is nothing new or useful in latour's work
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Reply to comment by fathermocker in Death of sociologist Bruno Latour, figure of ecological thought by WouldPreferNot2
self-reference 🥂
wow-signal t1_iro2oxj wrote
emphasis on "sociologist"
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Reply to comment by Newtothiz in Death of sociologist Bruno Latour, figure of ecological thought by WouldPreferNot2
lol
wow-signal t1_jah18pt wrote
Reply to comment by SvetlanaButosky in The imperfect translation between thoughts and language by LifeOfAPancake
not gonna happen. we have no clue how the mind works