Johnstone's discussion of rhetorical and dialectical argument was viewed as being highly original, and at odds with the prevailing logical empiricism of the time.
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Ayer s logical empiricism makes an important contribution to philosophy in that it provides a method of putting an end to otherwise irresolvable philosophical disputes.
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Upon the fall of logical empiricism's in the 1960s, the DN model was widely seen as a flawed or greatly incomplete model of scientific explanation.
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The wikipedia article states " During the 1960s and 1970s Western philosophies including analytical philosophy and logical empiricism began to make a mark in Soviet thought ."
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In Ayer's logical empiricism, philosophy is no longer seen as a metaphysical concern, nor as an attempt to provide speculative truths about the nature of ultimate reality.
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Influential in the latter 19th century, positivism was often linked to evolutionary theory, yet was eclipsed in the 20th century by neopositivism : logical positivism and logical empiricism.
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Historically, the statements from 6.4 onward were ignored by the Vienna Circle and the other proponents of logical empiricism, as they simply did not know what to make of them.
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Under logical empiricism's influence, especially Carl Hempel's work on the " covering law " model of scientific explanation, most philosophers had viewed scientific explanation as stating regularities, but not identifying causes.
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:: : : : : : : One of my replies to your posts revealed my interest in " logical empiricism ", whose founding thesis was that most of humankind's problems reduce to misunderstood language.
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He has also edited several volumes of papers in the philosophy of science, including, most recently, " Cognitive Models of Science " ( 1992 ) and " Origins of Logical Empiricism " ( 1996 ).
