55. Eventually, most scholars recognized that getting rid of the "nonsense"
was not a wise thing to do when dealing with reality. But back at the Vienna Circle when they were classifying metaphysics and intuition as "nonsense", I think that they were not using the term nonsense in a derrogatory way as such. Instead they were using "NON-sense" in contrast to the term "sense" (as in that which could be sensed by some or all of the five senses). Metaphysical experiences occur independently from the 5 physical senses and therefore are "non-senses". That is the way I take their interpretation. Positivism only considers what is apparent to the 5 senses.
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