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Language is very important to understand the mind. This realization was made (anew) around 1940. Bertrand Russell in this way became famous, but this stream of thought became dominated by his former
student Ludwig Wittgenstein. It relativizes philosophy as a science and originates from the thought that thought and knowledge are the basis of any language, because communicating thought requires language. In itself no new idea, it is at least as old as Plato. Analytic philosophy florished between 1945-1960 and was the successor of the Logical Positivism (Vienna Circle) of the 1930s (both inspired by Wittgenstein, Logical Positivism by the "Tractatus Logicus" of the young, Analytic Theory by the Philosophical Investigations of the elder). It's method focussed on language and the analysis of the concepts expressed in it. The employed methods were often mathematical Followers of this philosophy in this period all rejected the scientific attitude of their Positivist predecessors, who only believed in experience and theories about it, and instead attacked most problems as language puzzles As said the most famous representative from this period: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) Nonsense was accepted as world view too in Analytic Philosophy. These philosophers added abnormality to common sense, CERTAINLY not frivolous though but in a strict mathematical sense. |
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