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Foundations of Analytical Philosophy, Part 2: Logical Atomism and Logical Positivism

Daniel Hutto continues to explore the Analytic jungle.

“The way to understand reality is by examining language.” This claim of analytical philosophy is still important to many thinkers today. In the last issue of Philosophy Now I tried to give a guided tour around some of the events that were responsible for the genesis of this way of thinking. My aim here is to continue that tour by looking at the way in which the tradition matured between the time of its birth and its ‘middle period’.

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