{"id":6567,"date":"2023-09-29T08:57:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-29T07:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=6567"},"modified":"2023-09-29T19:12:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-29T18:12:21","slug":"two-humble-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=6567","title":{"rendered":"Two Humble Questions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The tradition they now represent has centered its chief inquiries around the two humble questions, \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d and \u201cHow do you know?\u201d<\/p>\n<cite>Herbert Feigl, <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/in.ernet.dli.2015.191050\/page\/n11\/mode\/2up\">&#8220;Logical Empiricism&#8221;<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Christian Frankel sent me this quote the other day knowing it would remind me of <a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=4523\">Wayne Booth&#8217;s mythical Oxford tutorials<\/a>. As a statement of the underlying attitude of the logical positivists, it&#8217;s quite nice, and I remember Steve Fuller once telling me that, whatever we may think of positivism as a philosophy of science, positivists were often excellent dissertation supervisors. Indeed, it&#8217;s not difficult to see how it might be helpful if your supervisor patiently and insistently asked you mainly, &#8220;What do you mean?&#8221; and &#8220;How do you know?&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=5670\">Imagine having someone give every single one of your paragraphs that treatment!<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m going to spend some time this weekend reading Feigl and relating his ideas to the issues I&#8217;ve been raising this week. Have a great weekend also!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The tradition they now represent has centered its chief inquiries around the two humble questions, \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d and \u201cHow do you know?\u201d Herbert Feigl, &#8220;Logical Empiricism&#8221; Christian Frankel sent me this quote the other day knowing it would remind me of Wayne Booth&#8217;s mythical Oxford tutorials. As a statement of the underlying attitude &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/?p=6567\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two Humble Questions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6567"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6569,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6567\/revisions\/6569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inframethodology.cbs.dk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}