GOFAI mostly recapitulated logical positivism, because the lessons of its failure were lost. Contemporary rationalism mostly recapitulates the errors of 1980s AI, because the lessons of its failures were lost.https://twitter.com/jonathanstray/status/1006951967653064704 …
Not specifically Quine or Sellars. There turned out to be numerous problems, any one of which would be fatal. Historically, everyone gave up after Kuhn, although some people started giving up as early as the ‘30s, as the first fatal problems started showing up.
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Okay so you're not counting later work of Carnap and Reichenbach as LP? That's good.
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Continuation of the project. Some people call the probabilistic versions “logical empiricism” but those also conclusively failed by the early ‘60s.
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