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Originally Posted by Argos
Is it really that difficult? 
He says he likes the bare and crude reality, without making it up, without unnecessary appendages, and he wants to keep facing it that way, bare and crude. It´s just another way to say he´s a positivist. |
What is bare and crude about reality and why would he want to keep it that way?
Maybe our knowledge of reality is bare and crude, but reality is not the projections of human kind alone. If by positivist you mean he rejects magic, I can't argue with that in the least. At what point does the rejection of "unnecessary appendages" and the defining of such, pervert the pursuit of knowledge and science? At what point does the rejection of "appendages" result from established skepitical prejudices as opposed to the scientific method, the metaphysic of the postivist? How does the skeptic confront his established worldview from a positivist position and not fall down the slippery slope?