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    Rejecting positivistic rationality risks substituting rig... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The narrow positivistic and instrumentalist model of rationality should be replaced with a more humanistic model of rationality.

    Rejecting positivistic rationality risks substituting rigorous epistemic standards with culturally contingent value judgments that cannot be publicly adjudicated.

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    • 1.Positivistic standards (reproducibility, falsifiability, peer review) enable cross-cultural scientific consensus that cultural relativism cannot achieve.
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    • 2.Without objective epistemic criteria, disagreements become power struggles rather than rational adjudication, disadvantaging marginalized groups.
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    • 3.Science's predictive success in medicine, engineering, and technology demonstrates positivistic rationality's superiority to culturally-contingent alternatives.
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    • 1.Positivistic standards themselves reflect contingent Western philosophical choices—formal logic, empiricism, and quantification aren't culture-transcendent.
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    • 2.Indigenous and non-Western knowledge systems (ecological, medical, mathematical) achieved public consensus through alternative rigorous methods for centuries.
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    • 3.Public adjudication requires shared values about what counts as evidence and proof—positivism cannot ground these without circular reasoning or dogmatism.
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