Ömer E.: Let us put all these ideas together and look at the picture of science that results. Logical positivism was a revolutionary, uncompromising version of empiricism, based largely on a theory of language. The aim of science —and the aim of everyday thought and problem-solving as well— is to track and anticipate patterns in experience. As Schlick once put it, “what every scientist seeks, and seeks alone, are ...the rules which govern the connection of experiences, and by which alone they can be predicted” (1932–33, 44). We can make rational predictions about future experiences by attending to patterns in past experience, but we never get a guarantee. We could always be wrong.

Let us put all these ideas together and look at the picture of science that results. Logical positivism was a revolutionary, uncompromising version of empiricism, based largely on a theory of language. The aim of science —and the aim of everyday thought and problem-solving as well— is to track and anticipate patterns in experience. As Schlick once put it, “what every scientist seeks, and seeks alone, are ...the rules which govern the connection of experiences, and by which alone they can be predicted” (1932–33, 44). We can make rational predictions about future experiences by attending to patterns in past experience, but we never get a guarantee. We could always be wrong.

Theory and Reality Peter Godfrey-Smith

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