
Episode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Hume-Con Problem in Science
When you say F equals Mv, it's not a description of the world in the sense of about the facts corresponding to the propositions. Vickin Shnein is saying that any time always if you want to speak meaningfully about a scientific law or whatever, you're going to end up having to prove it with a specific example. Once you come along and you're anti-metaphysical, it's a slippery slope to being anti-science.
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