In the preface to his later anthology Logical Positivism, Ayer remarked that his own Language, Truth and Logic "did something to popularize what may be called the classical position of the Vienna Circle" (1959, 8), but it should be noted that Ayer's earlier book had made the connection between the Vienna Circle and British empiricism wholly dominant.
The remark appeared logical, he said, as another in a series of suggestions by both Kim Jong Il and his father, Kim Il Sung, that they were in no hurry for U.S. troops to withdraw and would not demand a U.S. pullout as a prerequisite for reunification.
Everyone's ideas in the Looking Glass world are not only sensible but strictly logical: the White King's remark about using hay as a palliative for fainting ("I didn't say there was nothing better," he says. "I said there was nothing like it"); Humpty Dumpty's insistence on the literalness of conversations; the Hatter's riddle with no answer.
The "Tractatus" is a mixture of logical symbols and mystical remarks in which Ludwig attempted to delineate the limits of language.
The article "Some Remarks on Logical Form" (1929) marks the end of this optimism.
During the first phase (1928 9), documented in his 1929 article "Some Remarks on Logical Form" (Klagge and Nordmann, 1993, 29 35), Wittgenstein exhibits a growing dissatisfaction with certain central details of the Tractatus's logical atomism, and notably with the thesis of the independence of elementary propositions.
In "Some Remarks on Logical Form" (1929) he says: "One is often tempted to ask from an a priori standpoint: What, after all, can be the only forms of atomic propositions, and to answer, e.g., subject-predicate and the relational propositions with two or more terms further, perhaps, propositions relating predicates and relations with one another, and so on.
First up, Guardian Australia pals A Rational Fear follow Tony Abbott's sexist remark to its logical conclusion.
With Fox leading the coverage of the Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr.'s remarks, it was logical for Mr. Obama to appear on Fox and respond.
"I was getting further and further from what I wanted to do, but in steps that seemed logical at the time," she remarks, ruefully.
(Feyerabend remarks that the Logical Positivist Otto Neurath had already put this criticism of Popper some time before (p. 91)).
