Crudely speaking, positvism is that measurement = understanding.
That facts and sciences are “neutral” from the society that produces them and it devalues systems thinking. It atomises and isolates variables. Consider for example racial science such as skull measurements to assess intelligence, or IQ currently, or genetics for biological determinism etc.
To begin with it may be worthwile looking at the arguments against Karl Popper’s positvism (eg falsefiability) and how quantum physics proves positvism is not correct (while doing so you will also discover where positvists also claim that quantum physics backs them up!).
Then it may be worthwile doing a deep dive into dialectical materialism:
Crudely speaking, positvism is that measurement = understanding.
That facts and sciences are “neutral” from the society that produces them and it devalues systems thinking. It atomises and isolates variables. Consider for example racial science such as skull measurements to assess intelligence, or IQ currently, or genetics for biological determinism etc.
To begin with it may be worthwile looking at the arguments against Karl Popper’s positvism (eg falsefiability) and how quantum physics proves positvism is not correct (while doing so you will also discover where positvists also claim that quantum physics backs them up!).
Then it may be worthwile doing a deep dive into dialectical materialism:
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/10454574/7636518
https://lemmygrad.ml/post/9962669/7402719