HotterRod t1_itvjf2t wrote on October 26, 2022 at 4:51 PM 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 Principia Mathematica and subsequent set theories don't start from things you can count, they start from the empty set and the non-empty set. It's similar to basing a metaphysics on "I think therefore I am". Permalink Parent 16
HotterRod t1_itvjf2t wrote
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
Principia Mathematica and subsequent set theories don't start from things you can count, they start from the empty set and the non-empty set. It's similar to basing a metaphysics on "I think therefore I am".