Eliezer, you’re definitely setting up a straw man here. Of course it’s not just you—pretty much everybody suffers from this particular misunderstanding of logical positivism.
How do you know that the phrase “logical positivism” refers to the correct formulation of the idea, rather than an exaggerated version? I have no trouble at all believing that a group of people discovered the very important notion that untestable claims can be meaningless, and then accidentally went way overboard into believing that difficult-to-test claims are meaningless too.
How do you know that the phrase “logical positivism” refers to the correct formulation of the idea, rather than an exaggerated version? I have no trouble at all believing that a group of people discovered the very important notion that untestable claims can be meaningless, and then accidentally went way overboard into believing that difficult-to-test claims are meaningless too.