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Socrates taught us to be suspicious of answers. It was not until the twentieth century, however, that we learned to be properly suspicious of questions. The concept of a pseudo-question, of Scheinprobleme, may, in the end, be the one lasting legacy of the Positivistic aspirations that shaped our discipline in the early 1900’s.
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Rosenberg, J.F. (1980). Introduction. In: One World and Our Knowledge of It. Philosophical Studies Series in Philosophy, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9053-1_1
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