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Even to ask the existential question, however, presupposes that there is a common ideal or meaning that provides the standard for evaluating all special purposes and goods. And this presupposition, in turn, necessarily implies that positivism must be false in denying that there is also a common character pervading all possible reality and grounding the common ideal or meanIngmeaning. 

The effect of positivism is to deny that there is any completely universal ideal pervasive of all experience and thought, so that all we're left with -– in addition to science and technology -– is our own language-practices and our own value preferences, such as they may be. 

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