Second, the conception of science advocated by logical positivists came under attack.
In most cases in the West, however, with some variation, the logical parsing came before the acceptance.
This view of the language of ethical and political philosophy tended to limit serious study in those fields until the 1960s, when logical positivism came to be regarded as simplistic in its conceptions of linguistic meaning and scientific practice.
µ Another logical glitch came up in a sub-heading on Monday's front-page story about the doctors' strike: "Both sides accuse the other of putting patients' lives at risk".
In the 1960s, the reductionist program of the logical positivists came under attack by Thomas Kuhn and his followers, who argued that, in the history of science, the adoption of new "paradigms," or scientific worldviews, generally results in the complete replacement rather than the reduction of older theories.
Logical justification comes to an end when we reach these laws.
The methodological and metaphysical elements of logical atomism come together in postulating the theoretical, if not the practical, realizability of a fully analyzed language, in which all truths could in principle be expressed in a perspicuous manner.
With the caveat that language will always be an issue, it would seem simply logical to come up with a system to allow companies to capture that large, well-educated market in a scalable way.
I had recently created a musical playlist for my first novel, "The House of Tomorrow," for the New York Times Paper Cuts blog, when the next logical question came to mind: what if this collection of songs was a real CD or a series of downloads that came with the actual book?
And given that their non-logical behavior comes in degrees, can they be ordered in a meaningful way?
