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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. |