Logical Positivism & its Legacy - A. J. Ayer & Bryan Magee (1977)

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  @enochlule2698 · 2 years ago

  Mr. Magee! Its stunning and rare to see a man so comfortable with his subject matter. And his interview skills are extraordinary, he clearly knows what he would like discussed, allows the interviewee to say it and only interjects, in a way not bringing attention to himself, to add meat when what was served was too lean. Very enjoyable!

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  @laurenw4818 · 1 year ago

  No one breaks this shit down like Mr Magee. The pure passion in their voices when discussing these topics... love it!

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  @AI-Hallucination · 2 years ago

  miss people like this.

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  @ERACISMneworleans1 · 3 years ago

  He was brilliant and highly influential. I read Language, Truth, and Logic before I saw him give a talk in 1962 at UMASS.

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  @cheogrady · 3 years ago

  And any man who pulls out a cigarette on television and smokes it - then or now - is a BOSS!

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  @haimbenavraham1502 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I love how he's trying to get a puff, between logistics.. Very brilliant and a pleasure to see and listen to.

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  @kaihunlu2345 · 3 years ago

  Even if Ayer's words couldn't be followed, you would still walk away and say, "What a cool guy."

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  @danielkellyuk · 4 years ago

  Does logical positivism have an explanation for why 1970s TV was so brown?

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  @robertjacob5dmk3 · 2 weeks ago

  17;35 ...reminded me of my father way back then..wow rip dad 2026

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  @Onosecond · 3 years ago

  i love the nonchalance with which Freddie lights up... different era!

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  @philipdubuque9596 · 3 years ago

  Ayer comes off as having a balanced and refreshingly honest reappraisal of logical positivism and caps this with an interesting comment about its relation to Willian James' pragmatism.  The fact that he went straight to Vienna (rather that referencing Wittgenstein and/or Russell directly or for that matter Frege) yields a valuable perspective.  His comment regarding Ernst Mach's debt to David Hume is also a valuable connection worth further exploration.  Kudos to Mr. Magee for being such an erudite interlocutor in this discussion.

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  @nelsonroland2462 · 2 months ago

  Wonderful discussion. This gave me a far greater respect for Ayer.

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