logical reconstruction

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logical positivism

  • David Hume
    In positivism: Developments in linguistic analysis and their offshoots

    …of Carnap, usually designated as logical reconstruction, which builds up an artificial language. In the procedures of ordinary-language analysis, an attempt is made to trace the ways in which people commonly express themselves. In this manner, many of the traditional vexatious philosophical puzzles and perplexities are shown to arise out…

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