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analytic philosophy
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analytic philosophy
n.
1. A cluster of philosophical traditions holding that argumentation and clarity are vital to productive philosophical inquiry.
2. A philosophical school of the 20th century whose central methodology is the analysis of concepts or language. Leading practitioners have included Bertrand Russell, George Edward Moore, Rudolf Carnap, and Ludwig Wittgenstein.
3. Philosophy as professionally practiced in the United States and Great Britain in the 20th century.
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In philosophy of education, budding analytic philosophers of education were presented with, and took at least these two opportunities: (A) to challenge this analysis by raising questions about it, such as what was meant by 'worthwhile,' and was a condition merely contingent and not always needed, and; (B) to extend the analysis, magpie fashion, to other educational concepts such as needs, interests, and teaching.
The meaning of the concept of education: searching for the lost arc by Marshall, James D. / Journal of Thought
of Quebec) examines 20th-century American analytic philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine's claim of an asymmetry between the underdetermination of theory and the indeterminacy of translation.
Quine on meaning by Reference & Research Book News
Part of the phenomenology and pathological mindset of an analytic philosopher is that he/she will studiously avoid reading this book or any other work overtly critical of analytic philosophy.
What philosophy can and cannot contribute to business ethics by Capaldi, Nicholas / Journal of Private Enterprise
 
 
 
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