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I don't think anyone doubts that a positivist framework is useful for science and engineering, but why should it hold elsewhere?

It should hold everywhere another framework has not proven to be more effective.

Scientists and engineers are also stereotypically bad at social skills and politics. Perhaps because a different, non-positivist epistemological framework is required to thrive in other fields?

I don't think excessive positivism is a problem with politics today, do you?




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