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Reply to comment by Kyocus in Logical positivism does not dispense with metaphysics, as it aimed to. It merely proposes a different kind of metaphysics, in which natural sciences take the privileged position once occupied by rationalist metaphysics. by IAI_Admin
> 1. The Fallacy Fallacy, which I contend is like a distracted dog chasing a squirrel of irrelevance.
To me, the fallacy fallacy is a lot like "good/bad faith" - excellent rhetorical tools, and those who use them typically have little to negative interest in whether they are using them correctly. Occam's Razor would be another good candidate, as would "no evidence" and several other popular internet memes/heuristics.
> 2. Truthiness? Even Science approximates accuracy with reference to the most accurate of knowledge we have, rather than revealing absolute boolean truths about the Universe.
I agree, although that would get you in hot water with most Redditors, in my experience anyways. Peeople love love love their science!
> I doubt we can reliably achieve such lofty goals with regularity.
Mountains don't climb themselves, that's for sure!
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