Is Logical Positivism pozzed?

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[–]Albatros 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

First thing as i google:

Logical positivism, also called logical empiricism, a philosophical movement that arose in Vienna in the 1920s and was characterized by the view that scientific knowledge is the only kind of factual knowledge and that all traditional metaphysical doctrines are to be rejected as meaningless.

This is a joke. Science and metaphysics are not antagonizing but rather complement each other. An excessive focus on science to the point where everything else is disregarded seems to imply to me a very materialistic approach to life and i wouldn't take these texts seriously, but i do not know much about this subject so you do you OP.

[–]Pink[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

They define metaphysical statements as those which are not verifiable and not a tautology. An example that is given is a real quote which I remember as something along the lines of (paraphrased) "lines of Being unfold into evolution but do not enter into it itself." Since a statement is verifiable when the speaker/listener know what sense-content is predicted by it, the point is that metaphysical statements such as these carry no factual content. Statements may still carry emotional meaning for the speaker or listener but they can't say anything about the world unless they relate to sensations in some way, since everything we perceive is through one type of sensation or another.