Do they deny the existence of electrons? quarks? as Mach denied atoms.
Brent
On 9/7/2013 3:52 PM, spudboy...@aol.com wrote:
Yet, there's lots of scientists in public forums like this, who embrace logical
positivism. I am not saying this is a good thing, but something I have experienced.
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On 9/7/2013 12:40 AM, Alberto G. Corona wrote:
That's right. I´m not joking if i say that the thing that discredited philosophers
definitively was relativity, quantum mechanics and their realization: the atomic bomb.
That is the event that raised physicalism, a branch of logical positivism and
analytical philosophy, and discredited any other way of thinking.
If by "physicalism" you mean the meta- of physics, then it's not positivism. Positivism
hasn't been considered a good meta-physics since Mach. Too many unobservable things:
atoms, photons, quarks, virtual particles,... turned out to make good empirical models.
Brent
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