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A hardened, dogmatic version of logical positivism that long after the original movement has been critiqued into nuance, continues to insist that only empirically verifiable statements are meaningful. Late‑stage positivists reject metaphysics, ethics, aesthetics, and even much of theoretical science as nonsense. They demand operational definitions for every term and dismiss any inquiry that does not yield directly measurable results. This stance is often held by people who have read little philosophy of science and are unaware that positivism has been largely abandoned for good reasons.
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