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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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mirh t1_itx03zs wrote

It's not just that "somebody" demonstrated it false.

The very same authors and original proponents agreed that it was surpassed and wrong.

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Interesting_Mood_124 t1_itwm5w1 wrote

Well actually no.

The guy who came to speak at my university seminary specifically explained that it’s not dead and ultimately SHOULD replace metaphysics.

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wow-signal t1_itwnt01 wrote

it'd probably be worth learning about this yourself. here's a great place to start: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/logical-empiricism/

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Interesting_Mood_124 t1_itxfrr1 wrote

Do you think I don’t know the SEP exists?

At the end of the day, I’m just citing the opinion of an expert in the history of philosophy

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