Posted by
glen e. p. ropella-2 on
Feb 25, 2010; 11:03pm
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/speaking-of-evolution-and-self-organization-tp4550631p4636023.html
Thus spake Jochen Fromm circa 10-02-25 02:36 PM:
> Positivism in the epistemological sense ?? WTF does that mean ?
I believe Miles was objecting to my interpreting "positivism" to mean
justificationism. So, "positivism in the epistemological sense" would
mean the positivist rhetorical stance, where the only good argument is
an argument grounded directly on observation (preferably good science
but gracefully falling back to sensory experience) and then built up
logically from there. So, positivism is a form of justificationism and
is epistemological. It is in direct conflict with falsificationism,
which holds that we can't call any statement true, we can only say that
some particular statements are definitely false.
But he did NOT use the word in that epistemological sense. At least
that's what I think Miles meant. He can correct me if I'm wrong.
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