YoungXanto t1_itvj0sq wrote
Reply to comment by SecretHeat 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
>Not every question can be settled with airtight logic or an experiment; sometimes all you have is a better or worse argument
From the most skeptical point of view, all we ever have is a better or worse argument. That's the basis of statistics, rooted in probability theory (and very Humean).
We can only sample from observable space across time. Our counterfactual probabilities may be vanishingly small, but they can never be zero.
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