| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:history and future history: Wittgenstein as influence - |
| Posted by: | John Grinder |
| Date/Time: | 24/03/2003 10:06:29 |
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Hi Michael Yes, you are correct. Carnap was, of course, a member of the Vienna Circel (the logical positivists) - I studied his attempts (quite sterile initially in terms of inspiring further research along the same lines but logically very interesting) as a gradutate student. I detect certain patterning in his thinking that I suspect passed unconsciously from Carnap's work into Generative Semantics (now more or less defunct). It would be difficult to escape the influence of the positivists if you were born in the 20th century - indeed, as Carmen and I mention in Whispering, Chomsky's revolution was based deeply on challenging the strictures insisted upon what constituted legitimate science by the Vienna Circle and their followers. Please note the Wittgenstein himself never joined the Vienna Circle although the Circle itself studied his work in detail. This is my best guess about the possible influence of LW - who I still consider quite obscure. John |