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unusual facts about Logical positivism


New Wittgenstein

This view is in direct conflict with the longstanding, if somewhat old-fashioned, interpretation of the Tractatus advocated by the logical positivists associated with the Vienna Circle.


Ernest Nagel

Along with Rudolf Carnap, Hans Reichenbach, and Carl Hempel, he is sometimes seen as one of the major figures of the logical positivist movement.


see also

Empiricism

The central theses of logical positivism (verificationism, the analytic-synthetic distinction, reductionism, etc.) came under sharp attack after World War 2 by thinkers such as Nelson Goodman, W.V. Quine, Hilary Putnam, Karl Popper, and Richard Rorty.

Morris Cohen

Morris Raphael Cohen (1880–1947), American Jewish philosopher who united pragmatism with logical positivism and linguistic analysis