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Ideas for H.Putnam/P.Oppenheim, Auguste Comte and Herbert B. Enderton

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12. Knowledge Sources / D. Empiricism / 4. Pro-Empiricism

12108	All real knowledge rests on observed facts [Comte]
	Full Idea: All competent thinkers agree with Bacon that there can be no real knowledge except that which rests upon observed facts.
	From: Auguste Comte (Intro to Positive Philosophy [1830], Ch.1)
	A reaction: Are there any unobservable facts? If so, can we know them? The only plausible route is to add 'best explanation' to the positivist armoury. With positivism, empiricism became - for a while - a quasi-religion.