Language, Truth and Logic

@article{G1936LanguageTA,
  title={Language, Truth and Logic},
  author={T. G.},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1936},
  volume={138},
  pages={823-823}
}
  • T. G.
  • Published 1936
  • Nature
AbstractTHIS excellent compendium of the views and doctrines of the new positivism derived from the scientific empiricism of the Vienna circle and an extreme interpretation of the aims of logic, will no doubt rejoice the increasing number of thinkers who have discovered lately that there is no philosophy at all. Carrying to its limits the methodological scepticism of Hume, the new positivism holds that sense-data are the primary elements of science, from which things and forces are its highly… Expand
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