The main aim of Vienna circle was to banish what they called metaphysics from the domain of rational discourse. The positivist canonical demand was to get rid of any metaphysical forces like divine powers and spirits that exercise influence on worldly events. In doing so, they denied the all non-observational concepts like motives, preferences, and other states of mind even though they make use of empirical data. The members of Vienna circle like Neurath and Rudolf Carnap embraced Ernst Mach’s doctrine of ‘physicalism’- that only physical entities have a real and observable existence and that language of science must, therefore, consist of quantitatively precise descriptions of space-time points. It is noteworthy that the early positivists while argued that a meaningful scientific language should not consist emotive terms, did not forgo the use of such terms in advancing claims of their philosophy.
No comments:
Post a Comment