...:24 -0700 (PDT), turtoni <turtoni@fastmail.net> wrote: On Mar 10, 2:01Â am, turtoni <turt...@fastmail.net> wrote: Of the meaning of life, Ludwig Wittgenstein and the logical positivists said: expressed in language, the question is meaningless. This is because "meaning of x" is a term in life usually conveying something regarding the consequences of x, or the significance of x, ...
On Mar 10, 2:01Â am, turtoni <turt...@fastmail.net> wrote: Of the meaning of life, Ludwig Wittgenstein and the logical positivists said: expressed in language, the question is meaningless. This is because "meaning of x" is a term in life usually conveying something regarding the consequences of x, or the significance of x, or that which should be noted regarding x, etc. So when "life...
Of the meaning of life, Ludwig Wittgenstein and the logical positivists said: expressed in language, the question is meaningless. This is because "meaning of x" is a term in life usually conveying something regarding the consequences of x, or the significance of x, or that which should be noted regarding x, etc. So when "life" is used as "x" in the term "meaning of x", the statement becomes ...
...Russell and John Dewey, it brought together Trotskyite academics Albert Wohlstetter (mentor of current Defense Policy Board Chairman Richard Perle), Sidney Hook, and Ernest Nagel, with members of the radical-positivist Vienna Circle. Merging with Robert M. Hutchins at the University of Chicago in the 1950s, this operation took over the teaching of science in the United States. Thomas Kuhn's ...
...the beauty, of any particular scientific generalization is measured by its simplicity relative to the number of phenomena it can explain. Ernst Mach, a physicist and forerunner of the logical positivists, captured the idea with a definition: "Science may be regarded as a minimal problem consisting of the completest presentation of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought." On ...
... What is meaningful or valuable in life? [20] What is the value of life? [21] What is the reason to live? [22] What are we living for? [15] Some individuals, including logical positivists, have questioned the meaning of the question "What is the meaning of life?"[23] and the meaningfulness of asking such a question.[24] Others have considered the question "If there are no objective values, ...
... into history and time as Pannenberg once did. Here, he evaluates God of transcendence in terms of forward into history, not outside of history or from the beginning of history, as the positivists or existentialist have. This is deemed ‘deontological’, which means taken from one’s being. In Christian theology, he has already done it. He can transform himself into a powerless Christ child ...
... that NR was largely set up by his Treasury cronies). Indeed. I think Mizter T's analysis that the ELL is "just a long branch off [the LBSC main line]" is spot on, and so it would make perfect sense for its maintenance to be done by the same body that maintains that. tom -- only positivistic reason and the forms of philosophy based on it are universally valid -- Pope Benedict XVI
... obscured his achievement for some decades and books are still being written about the logical positivists (called logical empiricists in the US) without mention of Popper. In the 1930s he ... when we start looking for facts. This theory of knowledge has some political implications. The positivist-empiricist-inductivist may have thought that he did not need to actively make decisions about ...
... the idea they _do_ exist as anything more than a sad joke played upon the gullible. You are trying to prove a negative. Who is "you"? Comparatively few atheists adopt a positivist stance against the existence of gods, with two caveats: 1) Some gods are claimed to have mutually exclusive attributes, thus can be discounted out of hand 2) Ockham's Razor suggests ...
