How many of you autists ARE NOT positivists? And why not? I bet some of you have been espousing positivism without actually being aware of it as a philosophical position or of the many arguments against it.
>Positivism is a philosophical theory stating that positive knowledge is based on natural phenomena and their properties and relations. Thus, information derived from sensory experience, interpreted through reason and logic, forms the exclusive source of all authoritative knowledge.[1] Positivism holds that valid knowledge (certitude or truth) is found only in this derived knowledge.[2]
>Verified data (positive facts) received from the senses are known as empirical evidence; thus positivism is based on empiricism.[1]
dont know about positivism but i believe in the power of positive thinking
Mason Sanders
I don't care about social problems. I'm talking about problems dealing with fundamental objective reality. What philosophical benefits does positivism afford over that of scientific realism?
Colton Torres
And I also believe that Hume's point about empirical knowledge, that it has a belief at its heart, is unrefuted still.
Liam Baker
What's the distinction between positivism and "scientific realism". Isn't it the same thing? The philosophical belief that only knowledge gathered through the scientific method is valid.
Carson Hernandez
positivism rejects the existence of unobservables. postulated scientific entities included
Gabriel Rodriguez
By that definition, everyone is a positivist. So what kind of question is this?
Zachary Phillips
Positivism doesn't really do much to solve any actual philosophical problems. It's like solipsism in that it works for its tiny domain, yet it doesn't go anywhere beyond it.
Joseph Gomez
>philosophical "problems"
Zachary Cox
>Positivism doesn't really do much to solve any actual philosophical problems Anything that cant be solved with a scientific approach cant be meaningfully solved at all
Parker Clark
Everyone isn't a positivist, but the majority of people are, since it's the dominant epistemology in the Western world.
Asher Parker
You can't act as though you are not a positivist though. It's not physically possible.
Aaron Wilson
>reconciling a romance cannot be solved with the scientific method, hence it cannot be meaningfully solved.
You're demonstrating the limitations of positivism ITT.
Matthew Brooks
Why? Elaborate, I don't want to type out several paragraphs based on assumptions.
Josiah Moore
Only the autists on Veeky Forums, who are adherents of scientism, believe otherwise. Some parts of the human experience are beyond the scientific method.
Andrew Rivera
of course you can. Scientific realists and mathematical platonists do it every day
Jackson Howard
>Some parts of the human experience are beyond the scientific method. I can read wikipedia too, but I'm not stupid enough to take everything from it as fact.
Benjamin Phillips
Why are people itt conflating reason and science? You can't figure out how to reconcile a romance via the scientific method, but you absolutely can figure it out by applying reason and logic to sensory experience.
Christopher Morgan
I used to be a good realist goy like every other engineer Then I did a degree in physics and I became a realist.
Positivism is about as outdated as the physics engineers learn.
Jeremiah Anderson
I'm just autistic and I believe that that fact will help me derive a truly superior personal philosophy
Alexander Peterson
The scientific approach is inferior, conclusions drawn from pure logic are the only things that can truly be known.
