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How to express Kant's notion of existence on first-order logic according to Ayer?
In Language, Truth, and Logic, Ayer writes:
[As] Kant pointed out, existence is not an attribute. For, when we ascribe an attribute to a thing, we covertly assert that it exists.
However, I ...
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Logical positivism today
John Passmore in 1967 said that logical positivism
"...is dead, or as dead as a philosophical movement ever becomes."
Are there any modern philosophers that advocate logical positivism the same ...
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Should we not talk about ethics according to Wittgenstein?
Wittgenstein says in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus:
6.4 All propositions are of equal value.
6.41 The sense of the world must lie outside the world. In the world
everything is as it is ...
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truth-function theory paradox
I heard somewhere that truth-function theory of logical positivism (e.g. Wittgenstein) creates a "paradox" according to those who criticise the truth-function theory.
What is that paradox? (And I ...
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What are/were the main criticisms of logical positivism?
Logical positivism, later called logical empiricism, was a school of analytic philosophy famously connected with the Vienna circle and with a significant following up until the 1950's.
What were the ...
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What did John Passmore mean when he reported that logical positivism “is dead”?
The philosophical school of logical positivism (which later became known as "logical empiricism") was a type of analytic philosophy that attempted to combine empiricism with rationalist epistemology. ...
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Should Wittgenstein be given some credit for Godel's incompleteness theorem?
Is there a connection between Wittgenstein's argument against the "Theory of Types" and the proof of Godel's Incompleteness Theorem? Being only semi-knowledgeable, I will draw the connection of which ...
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What are some ways to read Wittgenstein's Tractatus other than resolute/irresolute?
There are, at present, two dominant ways to read Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (TLP). One is called the irresolute reading, the other the resolute reading.
The irresolute reading ...
