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Originally Posted by Yakk
So, where would logical positivists fall on this spectrum?
Roughly and in my understanding, a logical positivist holds that any statement that has no empirical implications has no meaning.
A statement has an implication if disproving the thing it implies proves the statement is false.
A yes/no question for which both answers are meaningless is a meaningless question.
If a logical positivist believes the question "is there a god?" is meaningless, does that make that logical positivist an atheist or an agnostic? |
Hey Yakk, it's late so I don't even know why I am even trying to understand your question. Is it a riddle? 
I'm thinking agnostic because you can't disprove the thing it implies.
Wouldn't that be - I don't know because it's a meaningless question?
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Last edited by Seeker; 04-27-2005 at 05:12 PM..
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