This is exactly why this kind of simplistic positivism is far from uncontroversial, and in fact saying that it is uncontroversial betrays an almost perfect inno

This is exactly why this kind of simplistic positivism is far from uncontroversial, and in fact saying that it is uncontroversial betrays an almost perfect innocence of epistemology. Once you subscribe to it, it becomes impossible to talk about very many things that we need to talk about.