Classical Logical Positivism Not Stupid Logical Positivism

Classical Logical Positivism not Stupid Logical Positivism A Tract Book Essay By Anthony J. Fejfar, B.A., J.D., Esq., Coif © Copyright 2007 by Anthony J. Fejfar

Stupid Logical Positivism is a flatland epistemology based on sense experience that doesn’t work. Human being think on at least three levels, not just the level of sense experience, and this has been known for thousands of years since the time of Plato and Aristotle in ancient Greece, thousands of years before Christ. Classical Logical Positivism is grounded in the notion set forth by Plato and Aristotle that there are at least three level to the human mind. They are: 3. The Intuitive Intellectual Wisdom or Spirit Mind. 2.

The Analytic or Soul Mind.

1.

The sensory or Body Mind.

This Classical form of Logical Positivism is expressed very well in the Cognitional Structure put forth by Jesuit Philosopher, Bernard Lonergan.

3. Level of Intuitive Judgment or Reflection

Wisdom Mind

2. Level of Analytic Understanding

Soul Mind

1. Level of Sense Experience

Body Mind

Lonergan’s three level Cognitional Structure is the only Logical Positivism that works. Only Lonergan’s Cognitional Structure can account for the use of the scientific

method and logic. Lonergan’s Cognitional Structure can even accommodate Spirituality.

Mundane, one level, Logical Positivism is absurd and stupid. It cannot

leve deal with the problem of optical sensory illusions, let alone the complexities of Quantum Physics. We must end the stupidity of mundane, flatland, one level, Logical Positivism and adopt the Lonerganian approach of Classical Logical Positivism.