timothyjwood t1_itz5yw3 wrote
Reply to comment by wow-signal 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 at all. With the notable exception of post-modernism, which amounts to competitive obscurantism, positivism mostly just became social science and the humanities generally. With, again, the exception of the mental nonsense special Olympics over there, probably most people don't even consider something like the wholesale rejection of metaphysical explanations. It's presumed. That goes back straight to Comte.
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