The Futility of any Anti-Metaphysical Position
... The influences of David Hume and Auguste Comte on the logical positivists cannot be over emphasized. It is perhaps, following Comte’s positivism that Rudolf Carnap asserts that metaphysics is an expression of an attitude toward life. Metaphysics he says, originated from mythology. The daily fears of ...
... The influences of David Hume and Auguste Comte on the logical positivists cannot be over emphasized. It is perhaps, following Comte’s positivism that Rudolf Carnap asserts that metaphysics is an expression of an attitude toward life. Metaphysics he says, originated from mythology. The daily fears of ...
quine - University of St Andrews
... tool-kit of the logician. So it seems wise to bring them into the picture. Also, the definition of logical truth might become more perspicuous this way. ...
... tool-kit of the logician. So it seems wise to bring them into the picture. Also, the definition of logical truth might become more perspicuous this way. ...
- Philsci-Archive
... antirealist with respect to theories. Thus Bohr referred to the state vector or the wave function as a symbolic representation. Usually symbolic language stands in contrast to literal language. Bohr associated the latter form of representation with what can be visualized in space and time. Quantum s ...
... antirealist with respect to theories. Thus Bohr referred to the state vector or the wave function as a symbolic representation. Usually symbolic language stands in contrast to literal language. Bohr associated the latter form of representation with what can be visualized in space and time. Quantum s ...
- Philsci
... seems the more charitable to Kant, since a psychological theory presented with bad arguments may still be a useful, engaging, even true picture of mind, but a purely logical or "conceptual" investigation frequently marked by bad arguments is nothing of value at all. But if Kant's theory was psycholo ...
... seems the more charitable to Kant, since a psychological theory presented with bad arguments may still be a useful, engaging, even true picture of mind, but a purely logical or "conceptual" investigation frequently marked by bad arguments is nothing of value at all. But if Kant's theory was psycholo ...