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Logical positivism
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The grounding revival brought metaphysics back without bringing back a method
For much of the twentieth century, substantive metaphysics was out of fashion. Carnap argued that many ontological questions were either trivial within a framework or merely practical choices about which framework to use. Quine brought ontology back, but in a tightly regimented…
Started by Oskar Nyberg0 replies57 views -
Logical pluralism is right, for the same reason statistical pluralism is
I build credit-scoring models in Nairobi. In my field the old fight between frequentist and Bayesian statistics has mostly cooled into pluralism: each is legitimate, they answer different questions, and a good analyst knows which to use when. I think logic is…
Started by Wanjiru Kamau5 replies172 views -
The analytic/continental split is mostly an accident of the 1930s, not a philosophical divide
I'm a logician in Kraków, which gives me a particular view of this. The Lwów–Warsaw school that Twardowski founded (Łukasiewicz, Leśniewski, Tarski and others) was doing rigorous analytic work in central Europe in the 1920s and 30s. Then the war destroyed it.…
Started by Tomasz Wójcik7 replies179 views