positivism

If you want a word view where science is deeply rooted, it's pragmatism, not positivism.

I doubt they would even know what I would mean by an intellectual framework or positivism.

"""In what way is Google+ more "natural" than Facebook?Also, "positivism": you keep using that word.

He concludes that the best thing is to unfollow people you don't like, and also that you should focus on positivism.

I particularly love that you used the word "ascend"; I shan't be the first to compare positivism to scientism

Many philosophers of science would argue that science is the search for truth, and an example of this might be logical positivism.

Logical positivism doesn't strike me as a concept with much logical positivist value.

Antipositivism is a thing, like it or not. I've aways loved the quote from Heisenberg: > The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that\n > which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in\n > silence.

Say what you will about Richard Stallman, there are lots of things he says I disagree with, but he says them with integrity and positivism and love, and not with angry denouncements.

With very few exceptions, my social science peers didn't have even a high level understanding of the alternatives to a intellectual framework like positivism.

“It was, of course, nothing more than logical positivism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be logical positivists.”

The trouble, I feel, with the overlap between science and philosophy is that most modern practitioners of what we know as "science" only have exposure to one epistomological world view: positivism.

This is exactly what he's talking about when he talks about how skeptics uncritically embrace logical positivism despite the fact that it's been completely rejected by the philosophical community.

It merely asserts, without proving, that the modern skeptic movement is equivalent to logical positivism, and provides neither an argument for that, nor an argument against logical positivism.

>Firstly, skepticism is basically just a new name for a discredited philosophical movement called 'logical positivism', in the same way that intelligent design is basically just a new name for creationism.

And I should not have to explain this to educated readers.> I particularly love that you used the word "ascend"; I shan't be the first to compare positivism to scientismScientism is an irrational confidence in science as an answer to all the world's problems.

To put it another way: scientific positivism allows one person, working alone in a laboratory, to discover something fundamentally new, by simply ratcheting along in tiny increments from what has already been discovered.