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"Philosophers like to call their arguments and counter-argument "moves."
It's a standard move to finesse a dispute by declaring it meaningless. This
was favored by the logical positivists in days of yore. They decreed that
the meaning of any statement is no more or less than its truth conditions.
It followed, where logical positivists were in charge, that metaphysics,
ethics, and much else was thrown out of philosophy. In time, by the same
rule, logical positivism was thrown out too."
—Reuben Hersh, What Is Mathematics, Really?, p. 139
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