The undertakers of Metaphysics - Context distinction

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What is the traditional reading of Reichenbach?

Context of discovery versus context of justification as temporal distinction. The distinction is unuseful: discovery processes are complex processes where there are a lot of hypotheses and their testing requires creativity. The complexity of problem solving is oversimplified

Epistemology according to Reichenbach? Why not Philosophical

It is part of sociology, because it is descriptive. POS should be normative (Vienna). Normative is 'rational reconstruction' (how it should be) of relation data. Hypothesis; Reichenbach does not preclude a 'rational reconstructism' of discovery processes.

Quine's dogmas of empiricism and his 'solution'

Dogma 1: Humes fork, analytic and synthetic statements. Dogma 2: reductionism/verificationism: the meaning of a synthetic statement is the procedure one should follow to verify/check wheteher it is true back to impressions.
But when no procedure, it is meaningless. (looking at you metaphysics)

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