Another development is the cooperation of logical positivism and pragmatism in the works of Charles W . Morris and Rudolf Carnap.
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Hempel came to acknowledge that Logical Positivism's verificationism was untenable, but argued that falsificationism was equally untenable on logical grounds alone.
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This philosophy greatly relaxes the epistemological commitments of logical positivism and no longer claims a separation between the knower and the known.
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Despite its revolutionary aims, logical positivism was but one view among many vying within Europe, and logical positivists initially spoke their language.
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Though it contained the first use of the term " logical positivism ", the logical positivists were generally dismissive of the work.
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He was educated at Eton College and Oxford University, after which he studied the philosophy of logical positivism at the University of Vienna.
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Earlier in the century, there was a branch of philosophy called logical positivism, which held truth to be a matter of defining terms.
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This focus on meta-ethics was in part caused by an intense linguistic focus in analytic philosophy and by the popularity of logical positivism.
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For example, followers of logical positivism held that " metaphysical " ( i . e . not Heidegger was grammatically correct, yet meaningless.
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Pragmatism enjoyed renewed attention after Willard Van Orman Quine and Wilfrid Sellars used a revised pragmatism to criticize logical positivism in the 1960s.
