A great philosopher is someone who is wrong in a very interesting way.
but once you look at the argument really carefully, you see that it’s wrong, and he’s gone to a lot of work to hide that,
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and he’s upfront about the motivation: he wants to rescue positivism, but he also recognizes that’s impossible.
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it’s an emotionally powerful essay, which is part of its appeal, but the emotions are inevitably conflicted:
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