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Re:Wild Ideas by platz on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @12:34PM (#6167556)
"For any issue, there is an objective truth of the matter, and if people care enough to find out the truth, they should eventually find a theory/explanation of the issue that no has an issue with, at least for a while"

This is called Logical positivism [1], well-known in the world of philosophy, and there are many criticisms. I'm not sure the matter is as self-evident as you present it to be.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_positivism

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Re:Wild Ideas by bumbledraven on Tuesday August 06, 2013 @01:04PM (#6167726)
Isn't logical positivism the idea that "any idea that can't be scientifically tested is meaningless"? By that criteria, logical positivism itself is meaningless.
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