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The exhaustion of positivism into a caricature of itself: the fetishisation of numbers, the reduction of all inquiry to measurement, and the dogmatic assertion that only empirical data constitute knowledge. Late‑stage positivism is what happens when a once‑transformative philosophy becomes the smug common sense of managers, pundits, and algorithm designers. It cannot recognise its own assumptions, because it has forgotten that it has any.
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