I was a philosophy major in college and only part of it that spoke to me was the Logical Positivists, who criticized metaphysics like Heidegger's "the Nothing itself nothings" (answering the question "which came first, nothingness or negation") as just poetry.
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the book "Language, Truth, and Logic" is part of why I studied philosophy although even Ayer admitted his argument was flawed. Still worth reading though.
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Yeah, everyone in philosophy agreed that logical positivism can't be made into a savable position, so I never attempted to, and that's why I used the phrase "spoke to me" rather than saying I believe it/defend it.
(I do think philosophy is mostly garbage.)
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A book club I belong to read "The Murder of Professor Schlick: The Rise and Fall of the Vienna Circle" by David Edmonds last year, which is all about the logical positivism philosophers (but not much about logical positivism). I enjoyed it.
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