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. -- glen e. p. ropella, 971-222-9095, http://agent-based-modeling.com ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
