Popperians everywhere!
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Popper was not a logical positivist, just to be clear...https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/1068801665850064896 …
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Scientism is bad, but a little bit of logical positivism never hurt anyone!
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I'm not sure it's a little. But explain either way.

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I think the logical positivists’ scrutiny of unclear language and untestable claims was a real contribution, for example, and we’d benefit today from more of that.
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Do you have examples of what you mean? Because superficially I think somebody who is not a logica positive would agree with that.
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The analysis of the language of science was a big part of what the logical positivists did. This probably problematically lead them to extreme positions like ‘the meaning of a sentence is the method of its verification’ - which was sort of the foundation for operationism.
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They took it a bit far and the characteur of their positions took it even further - but it was an honest attempt to improve science I think. That’s why I say a little bit of lp is fine.
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Sorry if I was not clear. When I said examples, I meant examples where you think people in my field would "benefit today from more of that." — I just don't see this as a core problem of my field, but I could be totally wrong (hence why I am asking for clarification).
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If anything I would say there is an obsession with formal methods, which is affecting the subfield I am in. negatively, even though it might seem to superficially help the greater field as a whole.
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What would you replace it with? Ordinary Language philosophy? Should we be analyzing the conceptual structure of statements in order to better understand the world?
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It's been replaced.
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With what?
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Probably depends on the discipline.
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I’m just confused because: 1) Quine while not a LP definitely thought science was the only source for true knowledge 2) in other comments you’ve lumped Popper in with the positivists 3) you don’t seem to be saying the problem at the heart of this is philosophy of perception
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No, not at all for 2. See subthread:https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/1068801665850064896 …
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I'm not entirely sure what your goal is here though. If you disagree with my facetious observation, obviously, that's fine.
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Well I’m trying to understand why you think this is such a catastrophe. It’s not as if LP and Positivism don’t have contemporary adherents making persuasive cases: see Ross and Ladyman’s “Everything must Go” it was a great book and widely praised
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and more and more eugenicists, at least it seems to me
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It's depressing!
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WTF??!
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