Why are these so many logical positivists and scientism supporters around these days? What happened? Are we re-running the 20th century but with a different random seed and the tech BS parameter set higher?
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Popperians everywhere!
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Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ Retweeted Olivia Guest | Ολίβια Γκεστ
Popper was not a logical positivist, just to be clear...https://twitter.com/o_guest/status/1068801665850064896 …
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You argue he was. Technically he had the term critical rationalist coined for him. But his model of the relation of theory to evidence is not a radical departure from the Vienna Circle's. Both derive H as an atomistic observation statement from a theoretical language.
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Sorry, you *could* argue he was. (You obviously didn't want to!)
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What I mean is that Popper falls within the Humean strand of analytic philosophy of his time. The best knowledge is empirical; hypotheses can be deduced automatically from theory; we have no need for innate concepts; only concepts that can be tested/verified matter.
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It looks a lot like logical empiricism (ie positivism). It differs by advocating falsification instead of verification; using modus tollens instead of modus ponens; and giving a higher statues to less probable rather than more probable hypotheses. But it's in the same system
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It's not until Quine and Sellars that you see a turn away from this Humean framework in analytic philosophy.
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Basically I want to say I think you were right the first time.
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