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When asked about the shortcomings of this movement, A. J. Ayer quipped that besides its support of emotivism, “nearly all of it was false.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this movement represented by the Vienna Circle and Berlin Circle that emphasized the verification principle. This movement declined in the wake of Thomas Kuhn’s book The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
ANSWER: logical positivism [or logical empiricism]
[10h] Logical positivist Rudolf Carnap argued that issues in metaphysics were really this kind of problem, as they did not contain empirically testable claims, thus making them meaningless.
ANSWER: pseudo problems
[10e] Logical positivism was heavily influenced by the early work of this Austrian philosopher in his Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, which he himself criticized in his later Philosophical Investigations.
ANSWER: Ludwig Wittgenstein
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