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Logical Positivism

tucker58

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Was it not the intellectual predecessor of Popper's falsificationism? From the theory that a term must have verifiable reference to be meaningful, to the theory that science must make falsifiable hypotheses, in order to be scientific.

I love you Growingsmaller, you are very wily.

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Chesterton

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I would have to disagree. I believe many commonly used terms denote imaginary things. (e.g. freedom, justice)

If there's no such thing as justice then there can be no such thing as injustice. But I see you often, in the history forum for example, complaining about injustice in the world. That seems odd.

Siddhartha Gautama freed himself from attachments. (Or so we are told.)

Of course, the rabbi Yeshua said much the same thing: "Take no thought for tomorrow, asking 'What shall we eat, what shall we drink, with what shall we be clothed?'"

Yes and we Christians say stuff like "die to the world", "be in the world but not of the world", and "don't be conformed to the world". The ideas aren't altogether different although the underlying reasons are different.
 
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