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Positivism and the limits of thought
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Positivism and the limits of thought

Richard Fumerton
Discipline filosofiche, Vol.23(1), pp.39-55
2013
DOI: 10.1400/217045

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Abstract

In this paper I shall argue that the kind of positivism influenced by radical empiricism has the resources to develop a reductionist program that still allows thought to reach (albeit indirectly) beyond what is given in experience. In reaching this conclusion I also argue that it was always important for the positivist to distinguish limits on what can be verified from limits on what can be meaningfully thought.

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