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Let’s begin with an unexciting commonplace about logical empiricism in order to raise a question about what follows from it. In trying to answer it we shall find that matters are not as cut and dried as is often supposed - even before we get to heterodox representatives of the movement like Otto Neurath.
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Uebel, T. (2010). Opposition to Verstehen in Orthodox Logical Empiricism. In: Feest, U. (eds) Historical Perspectives on Erklären and Verstehen. Archimedes, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3540-0_15
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