>>Going back to Jim H's original post, I do not doubt that logical
>>positivists were intelligent enough to allow verbally for the limits of
>>observable reality, but the philosophical enemy is surely better defined as
>>empricism.
>
>What's wrong with empiricism?
>--
>Jim heartfield
Getting empirical data is fine, but confining an understanding of reality only to what is suggested by empirical data is empiricism. Mao's epistemological essay "On Practice" explains the perspective, with the help of diligent references to Lenin.
Chris Burford
London