Reply #39: The difference between empiricism and logical empiricism (positivism) is [View All]

that logical empiricism has a rational component. Empiricism is what it is - nothing more can be ascribed to it. The difference between the scientific method(s)of, say, Newton's time and the Scientific Method as defined after the Vienna Circle is in the inductive steps of the method. In Newton's time there was no stated limitation to what constituted sound inductive logic (metaphysics, intuition, emotions). After the Vienna Circle, with the application of Logical Positivism to the inductive side of the SM, induction was limited ONLY to empirical elements. That is the significance of the Vienna Circle's contribution to the SM and of Logical Positivism. For them, they finally defined and recognized a unified Scientific Method.