Why Logical Positivism Is A Stupid Philosophy

Why Logical Positivism is a Stupid Philosophy A Tract Book Essay By Anthony J. Fejfar, B.A., J.D., Esq., Coif © Copyright 2007 by Anthony J. Fejfar Logical Positivism is a Stupid but dangerous philosophy. It is Stupid because it is blatantly wrong, and it is dangerous because so many professional academics and psychiatrists still use it, knowingly or not. Let us take psychiatry. Psychiatrists essentially say that the thing that is really real is ordinary sense experience. Spiritual experience of any sort is considered psychotic. This is basically Logical Positivism. Logical Positivism argues, wrongly, that reality is best found through sense experience and rigorous logical inferences therefrom. If you can’t see it with your eyes or touch it with your fingers, according to Logical Positivism what you are experiencing is an hallucination. Now, Logical Positivists are required by their own rules to accept the validity of logic itself. Now, logically, if sense experience is not a universally reliable indicator of reality, then sense experience, and thus the Logical Positivism upon which it is based, is false, wrong, and stupid.

I have already shown that sense experience cannot account for

the fact that a straight stick looks crooked when place in a glass tank of water and is looked upon through the glass of the side of the tank. But now I have another example of the unreliability of sense experience. Cognitive Psychologists have run an experiment which shows that ordinary human eye perception can easily be fooled with a simple demonstration. Here it is. Look

at example one and example two below and tell me if the distance between in signs in each case is the same.

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Now, most people will say that the space between the signs in sample one is smaller than that of sample two. In fact they are exactly the same. This visual perceptual illusion once again demonstrates that sense experience is not a universally reliable indicator of reality. Thus the Logical Positivism upon which sense experience is based is crap. I am sure there are many more examples that the reader can come up with, but for my purposes, two examples discrediting sense experience and Logical Positivism is enough.