"I never said I was a positivist. I am actually a skeptic, but I can illustrate that the empirical method has a much higher probability of leading to a desired outcome than any other one. You can consider my epistemological beliefs to be close to Hume's. Oh, and epistemological skepticism != relativism."

Hume's empirical method just says the world immoral and you have to start from that point; that's not empirically verified...

"As for positivism, I think you're off by at least 50 years. Positivism was pretty popular after WW2, thanks to inspiration by Bertrand Russell."

Positivism 'started' with Comte and political-positivism revived before WW2, with the Wiener Kreis and others opposing "national preservation justifies an imposing attitude"-like states.

I think its because they live longer than we wanted them to actually because they're gonna earn $2 million salary plus room and board for 4 years, and they can make that much for 30 mins speech on "I like me, and you should like yourself", they can pay for their own rentacops for 40 years

"I am planning to go in to political science with the strict intention of transforming it in to an empirical discipline, and introduce the light of reason to liberal arts academics by illustrating how the realist political approach is the right approach. I will devote my life to discrediting America's current consensus of things like natural rights, post-modernism, and anything normative (A state ought to do x). "

YAWN they been at it for nearly 20 years, ever since CORELDRAW let them do insane 3D graphs to show correlations and justapositions of factors they've been arguing a positivist approach.  Boring as hell, dude!

"an empirical approach is not valid for human-sciences, as you will see. The truth is always tainted by your vision on the subject. "

You ARE a postmodernist!
/sobs
/shoots Alan in the back of the head

yell, no one's guna go out to hear Bush speak other than einstien and BW after obama takes his seat
or atleast pay to go hear him speak

Yes, they like freaks.

A Russian general and an American general were bragging.  "Russian soldier gets 1000 calories per day in all weathers!" said the Ruski. "Our men get 2000 calories" said the American. "Impossible!" said the Ruski. "No one could eat that much potato!"

i thought BW and einstien were japanese  

and Deci when i mentioned it, i said it doesn't really belong, but it's still funny

@ ALAN.....   waaaaa ?

Euros are not that "Nationalist?"

ROFL.  Maybe the Socialist wing/pro-EU conglomerate.

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from: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7556857.stm

"Russia has invaded a sovereign neighbouring state and threatens a democratic government elected by its people. Such an action is unacceptable in the 21st Century. The Russian government must reverse the course it appears to be on and accept this peace agreement as a first step toward solving this conflict"

George W. Bush

That sounds like a miserable political joke. He kills commands and orders for the invasion of Iraq, which resulted in a million Iraqi civilian casualties ( and still counting!) and then he blames Russia over attacking an aggressive country (Georgia) who attacked South Ossetia in the first place!

He probably wanted to make a joke but he actually made an ass of himself

umm bush or anyone who supported the war in iraq really should not be talking down to russia

even though what russia did was wrong, the last person they should hear complaining about them is bush

Including us Canadians...heh.
For example:
The betting line on Canadians winning medals at these 2008 summer olympics is that Mike Phelps will win more than all the other Canadians put together will.

What's your point? I never adressed Canadians

Exactly Alan!
You don't want us Canadians to use our secret outerspace fleet to shoot down your civilian structures.
Muahahaha!!!

EDIT:
or to burn down your white house again

"I will fight for your right to be wrong!" << S.G. Tallentyre
"I am a flexible centrist: not stuck on right-wing, not stuck on left-wing, and not stuck on centre...and I don't flip-flop either" <<< me
Fighting for peace is like stopping the raping of a virgin.