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They are neither heuristics nor edicts. They're what's necessary for a definition to be functional and make sense - if you cannot divide the world into A and ~A based on a provided definition, it is invalid.
As for positivism, the 'refutations' made certain assumptions critical to their validity that I assert do not hold. With a whole field dominated by Richards, why would you assume that long-standing consensuses are valid?
The concept of logical positivism is certainly wrong... but it's the 'logical' part that's the problem.