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Episode #120 ... Logical Positivism

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All Swans Are White

Scientific consensus in western europe before this was that all swans were white. This is a defining and important characteristic of all scientific laws we create from the results of the experiments we run. No matter how many experiments you run, no matter how many white swans you see, general conclusions bout the way things are can never be something that is verifiable empirically or logically. You cannot use your senses to verify a statement like 'all swans are white' The logical positivists try for a while to find a way around this problem,. but eventually just end it moving on to other things. Another really important critique against a logicalpositivist comes after the movementis pretty much

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