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Science Is as Science Does
17 years ago
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Author: Benjamin Richards
The logical positivists devised a rigid criterion of knowledge: you cannot know anything you cannot empirically verify. The logical positivists' criterion did not meet its own demand. But scientists never got the memo, and there persists to this day a widespread prejudice that the only "real" sciences are empirical sciences. And Keynesians want to be scientists too!
http://mises.org/story/3369
The logical positivists devised a rigid criterion of knowledge: you cannot know anything you cannot empirically verify. The logical positivists' criterion did not meet its own demand. But scientists never got the memo, and there persists to this day a widespread prejudice that the only "real" sciences are empirical sciences. And Keynesians want to be scientists too!
http://mises.org/story/3369
