#logical positivism

[tagitables]

[historyandphilosophy]

Alfred Jules Ayer / A. J. Ayer / Philosophy

ALFRED JULES AYER WAS AN ENGLISH PHILOSOPHER KNOWN FOR HIS PROMOTION OF LOGICAL POSITIVISM, PARTICULARLY IN HIS BOOKS LANGUAGE, TRUTH, AND LOGIC AND THE PROBLEM OF KNOWLEDGE.

[wittgensteining]

Absolutely obsessed with how this article calls Wittgenstein’s opinion on Moore "bitchy":

[theidealistphilosophy]

Philosophy is that activity by which the meaning of propositions is established or discovered; it is a question of what the propositions actually mean. The content, soul, and spirit of science naturally consist in what is ultimately meant by its sentences; the philosophical activity of rendering significant is thus the alpha and omega of all scientific knowledge.

Moritz Schlick, Interpreting Ludwig Wittgenstein's position.

[some-dizzy-whore-1804]

[ghost--electricity]

Fuck Neil deGrasse Tyson and his scientism and nihilism.

I just don't understand NDT's whole evangelical nihilism angle. If he really feels that way he should be consistent and end his own meaningless life rather than try to deprive other people's lives of meaning.*

And the "have a nice day" part is just so smug and self-satisfied.

* I am not actually calling for NDT to commit suicide, but rather making a rhetorical point.

[frwllhppyvlds]

Comprehension is neither an arbitrary act nor a passive experience, but a responsible act claiming universal validity. Such knowing is indeed objective in the sense of establishing contact with a hidden reality; a contact that is defined as the condition for anticipating an indeterminate range of yet unknown (and perhaps inconceivable) true implications. It seems reasonable to describe this fusion of the personal and the objective as Personal Knowledge.

-Personal Knowledge by Michael Polanyi 

[anaxerneas]

Jaakko Hintikka, Intellectual Autobiography