--- Erik Reuter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:20:00PM -0700, Jan Coffey wrote:
> >
> > Do you consider yourself a Positivist?
>
> If I say no, will you think negatively of me? :-)
>
> Ummm, wait while I look it up (I've heard it before but I don't really
> know what it means, I'm quite ignorant on a lot of philosophy, in fact,
> despited my 3 letter designation I can't remember having ever read a
> philosophy book)
>
> [side note: on dictionary.com they had the ad: "If you love someone who
> has Schizophrenia...you're not alone." ]
>
> positivist
>
> adj : of or relating to positivism; "positivist thinkers"; "positivist
> doctrine"; "positive philosophy" [syn: positivistic, positive] n :
> someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical
> speculation about origins or ultimate causes [syn: rationalist]
>
> Tentatively, I'd say yes based on that definition but I'm not really
> happy with it. I wouldn't describe my thought that way off-hand. I
> don't like the ambiguity of "speculation about origins or ultimate
> causes". Maybe that is philosophical jargon and actually means something
> specific, but to me it is a little vauge.
>
>
I'm not happy with that definition either.
Websters
Positivism: A theory that theology and metaphysics are earlier imperfect
modes of knowledge and that positive knowledge is based on natural phenomena
and their properties and relations as verified by the empirical sciences
Logical Positivism: a 20th century philosophical movement that holds
characteristically that all meaningful statements are either analytic or
conclusively verifiable or at least confirmable by observation and experiment
and that metaphysical theories are therefore strictly meaningless -- called
also logical empiricism
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