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Jim__

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Wed May-05-10 08:08 AM
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19. I disagree with the focus of your answer.

You seem to be focused mainly on solipsism. I don't believe that was a major concern of the Vienna Circle or of Logical Positivism. They held that statements must be deduced from a priori truths, or deduced from empirical observations in combination with other established truths. Quine, who sometimes sat on on the discussions of the Vienna Circle, pretty much demolished their assumptions in his paper, Two Dogmas of Empiricism.

Those dogmas can pretty much serve as their metaphysics, and Quine convincingly showed that they did not survive careful scrutiny.

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