Trashing Logical Positivism

Trashing Logical Positivism A Tract Book Essay By Anthony J. Fejfar, B.A., J.D., Esq., Coif © Copyright 2007 by Anthony J. Fejfar Logical Postivism is a valid philosophy only if sense experience is a valid indicator of reality. Logical Positivism is trashed. Sense experience is not a valid indicator of reality. In his book, Psychology of Consciousness, Robert Ornstein discusses the accuracy of visual sense experience. Ornstein notes that a huge amount of visual sense experience is filtered out by something like autoconsciousness, and never reaches the conscious mind. This is also true of smelling and hearing. We know that certain animals can hear and smell sense data on bandwidths that we can’t, namely, dogs. So, when someone tries to tell you that Logical Positivism is a normative discipline, trash that person’s assertion, he is lying to you.