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Why Logical Positivism Is Dumb
Why Logical Positivism Is Dumb
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The general idea behind Logical Positivism is that reality is best known through
rigorous inferences from sense experience. The idea is that sense experience gives us a
In his book, “Psychology of Consciousness,” Robert Ornstein points out that the
human mind edits out a significant amount of “sense data” from ever reaching the
conscious mind. For example, it may be that the human ear can hear sounds, such as a
dog whistle, although this information is edited out and never reaches the conscious
mind.
places a bag of ice on one’s hand for several minutes, then the temperature of warm
water running on one’s hand will fell different than normal. Alternatively, if one places
a very warm wet washcloth on one’s hand and then runs cool water over the hand, the