70 Humes Fork Logical Positivism amp Quine THUNK

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Logical positivism ran with Hume's analytic/synthetic distinction...turns out running with forks is a bad idea. • Links for the Curious • Hume's An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, where he posited the analytic/synthetic distinction - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/9662/... • AJ Ayer's Language, Truth, Logic, one of the most popular logical positivist works published - http://s-f-walker.org.uk/pubsebooks/p... • Quine's Two Dogmas of Empiricism - http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html • Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, one of the inspirational texts for the Vienna Circle - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5740/... • A fantastic interview with AJ Ayer regarding the formation/development logical positivism, its collapse, its wider effects - • Ayer on Logical Positivism: Section 1 • Carnap's The Elimination of Metaphysics - http://www.calstatela.edu/sites/defau... • The Partially Examined Life podcast on Quine's work targeting logical positivism - http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/... • The Reddit thread where various philosophy buffs helped me straighten out - / mistaking_intuition_for_logic_results_in

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