On Thursday, January 24, 2013 1:13:18 PM UTC-5, Brent wrote: > > On 1/24/2013 9:41 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote: > > In fact it is just the opposite: the position of Luther, like the one > of Ocham or Duns > > Scoto, which were strongly anti-reason, created the modern science and > were precursors > > of the most radical forms of Positivism. > > They were anti-rationlism, the idea that knowledge of the world could be > arrived at by arm > chair cogitation. A 'precursor' to radical positivism would be moderate > postivism whose > precursor would simply be empiricism. > > Empiricists still sit in chairs and cogitate. Adding instruments to validate cogitation only improves on that, not replaces it.
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