Debunking Positivism

When it comes to an expert in trapping people in what I may term it as 'prove know beleive' mindset, then 'positivism' takes the beer. The modern man is a preacher and never a teacher. He KNOWS everything and UNDERSTAND nothing. He always try to recruit, persuade, prove, convert. This is the sons of a way of thinking termed 'positivism' so lets close exermine this doctrine to see if it has any merits.POSITIVISM: A philosophical stand which hold that justifyable knowledge is only that which can be proven by observation and/or infered logically from what we observe.It seems to make sense. However, as I will show you, it does not conduct electricity. It is saing 'science' (as unwittingly redefined in modern times) is the only justifyable knowledge. So it is even tempting to equate science to positivism. This was infact done at the beginning of 20th centuary. Positivism disease plagued physics during the advent of relativity and quantum mechanics. Positivism, when fully mature, begets absurd knowledge and endless paradoxes.Positivism gives excess trust to common senses, test, touch, smell, hear, see and reject introspection as a source of knowledge. But what sense does this make? Introspection performed by the BRAIN, the very same organ that must interprate the data you observe through your senses. If the intuition of the brain is not to be trusted, then neither should we trust our senses because it is infact the very same brain that sees, and not the eyes. It sees what it has checked and gotten convince that it is true. Or perharps it simply sees what it want to beleive and/or what is usefull to beleive.Positivism looks sensible but surprisingly, it begets obviously dump conclusions and experiments. How many things do we truely prove in day to day life? The answer is NOTHING! When your child merely walks around the corner of the streets, you can nolonger prove by touching, seeing and smelling that he exist any more. Neither can you prove that he will return. Is it not equaly justifyable to coock lunch for that child because you cannot prove empirically that he still exist? What makes you so sure that people don't vanish by merely hiding? The answer is introspection. A sane person should be able to understand that trusting the 'eyes', the visual cortex, and doubting celebral cortex is philosophically bunk.With positivism, we don't trust the brain. We have to perform experiments to 'prove' even very stupid claims. Some of these experiments worth billions of dollers. So positivism is takes the wisky when it comes to making scientists zillionairs. Is the seed inside a mango perharps bigger than the mango itself? Guess what? We must pull out the tape and measure the mango and then measure the seed!Positivism rejects a priori knowledge in favour of a pesteriori yet it is, itself an a priori reasoning on what constitude justifyable know. So positivism self destruct on its own way to defining itself. The question of whether or not knowledge should constitute only the empirical cannot be settled via experiments. To do that is begging the question. Therefore the positivist cannot have possibly arrive at his coclusion by experimentations and proves. Therefore, based on its own standard, positivism is not a justifyable knowledge. Positivism is one of those ideas ridiculus enough to self refute!INSTINCTOne of the most ridiculus notions, often peddled by relativists and quantum mechanists is the insinuation that a priori knowledge is a sum of what we observe in day to day world. What they are yet to discover is another way of knowing termed 'instinct'. We can easily know that many of what QM and SR brew are downright garbage even without performing any experiment. This strange way of knowing has nothing to do with empiricism. It is an inborn state of the brain that if it can be said to be wrong, then even empiricism is wrong because a posteriori knowledge inevitably pass through the very same brain we wish to dismiss!For example, a relativist is stupid enough to think that the knowledge of space and time is derived a posteriori. To a relativist, it is after gawking at a clock that he comes to terms with what 'time' mean!! Thus the inventers of clocks did not know what they were trying to measure, and yet the calibrations they made must be unquestionable!! It is after flying a clock around the world do we come to terms with what 'time' means. Make sense? Why all these crap? Because admitting that 'time' is known a priori is a classic counter example against positivism which holds that all justifyable knowledge are those comming from the temple called 'laboratory'.Everyone who have passed through a physics lesson number 1 ought to know that if you donnot know how long an object is, then you cannot measure how long it is. But how come Lord Kelvin was stupid enough to equate 'measuring' with 'knowing' and mislead a generation of physicists? We know a priori what equality and inequality means without having experience the world. A chick must be able to know an eagle, nearness, speed and even gravity without having experienced these things before. Ergo there is a way of knowing that can circumvent the need for empirical proofs!One can even argue that all knowledges are infact ultimately instinctual. We can completely circumvent the 'truth'/'false' dichotomy and replace it with a 'usefull'/'useless' dichotomy. A bat uses a natural radar to constract an image of the world. It may have a very 'false' picture of the world. But 'truth' is not important!!! Avoiding danger is all we need. We see and experience things that our minds find them important to know of. If for instance the magnetic field lines could easily tear us apart, then upon sensing the forice, our brains would develope a 'false' image to toruses here and to allow us to 'know' that there is a danger ahead. Everyone would beleive that there is aether 'even if it does not exist'. Ergo it is philosophicaly prudent to hold that if it behaves, for all relevant purposes, like it exists, then it exists!! We donnot need a physical prove of existence. We need to UNDERSTAND phenomena to a good extend as making viable predictions using it.SCIENCE IS NOT POSITIVISMLet us again recarp positivism:"...justifyable knowledge is only those that can be proven empirically..."Ironically, even science fails this criteria. To be usefull, science must rely on statements that, strictly speaking, cannot be proven. You cannot prove that a mango must always fall down no matter how many experiments you perform with mangoes! We accept a claim as 'science fact' only because it is USEFULL to beleive and not because it is TRUE. Once a more usefull idea comes, such as a 'curved space', we drop the latter 'even if it was true'! We don't retain Newton's gravity necesarily because it is true but because it is usefull. Gr might be 'true' but to land man on moon, we nead Newton gravity 'even if it is false'! So it is usefull to beleive in Newton's gravity. Consiquently, our brains convinces us that it is true and GR curved nothing is garbage. Or in short, there is simply no truth! Either a claim is sensible, hence usefull, or senseless and hence useless!

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