AJ Ayer's Contribution
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1. A.J. Ayer's Language Truth nd Logic was probably the most influential widely read work in post 30's after Russell's Introduction to Problems of Philosophy to bring the substantive critique of the positivists -- the verificatin criterion of cognitive meaning -- to bear on the language of Germanic/Euro lemmings. Later, Carnaps Logical Syntax of Language covered much the same ground in a more formal, Teutonic (and more confused) way. The attempts to formulate sense-datum statements by these guys, including O. Neurath, H. Feigl -- up to Bergmann -- were naive-to-stupid.
2. Ayer's Foundations of Empirical Knowledge took the notion of "sense datum" which Russell had introduced, following G.E. Moore's celebrated Refutation of Idealism ("awareness of blue isn't blue") and placed it on a linguistic basis. The "sense datum language", contrasting with "the physical object language", are alternative ways of describing the totality of experience, not metaphysical alternatives. This was, and is, decisive. It was taken up by Roderick Chisholm in his "theory of appearing", which tried to accomodate the conclusion thrust on the mind by the causal theory of perception ("the contents of your experience are mediated by the anatomical preparation*" -- Freud's term) in ordinary language philosophy. That grounded out. All in all, NO SYSTEMATIC THINKER (least of all Chomsky, who isn't really systematic at all, it's only a transcendental illusion of 'grammar'; same disease as textualism; took out Strawson, Harre and all of Wittgenstein's Oxford entourage) has done squat with consciousness. So they turned it over to the occult, surviving Dead Heads (note oxymoron), various esoterics and the Y gen.
(The key lies in the stratification of discourse into token-types. The "sense datum language" is the description of experience under signs used for objects taken phenomenally (cf. Descartes' Meditation 3). This is sign-use level S*2 in my arrangement, S*1 being dreams (phenomenal content produced by inter-psychic processes). S*3 is the language of physical objects, required to complete what S*1 posits -- the manifold of neurological firings (hypothetica totality of material causes of conscious content) that pass over into communication.)
You know you are in the presence of Jew
when your words are repeated without comment,
as if (right minded)* monkeys know just what to do.
__________________
Everything is two
1. A.J. Ayer's Language Truth nd Logic was probably the most influential widely read work in post 30's after Russell's Introduction to Problems of Philosophy to bring the substantive critique of the positivists -- the verificatin criterion of cognitive meaning -- to bear on the language of Germanic/Euro lemmings. Later, Carnaps Logical Syntax of Language covered much the same ground in a more formal, Teutonic (and more confused) way. The attempts to formulate sense-datum statements by these guys, including O. Neurath, H. Feigl -- up to Bergmann -- were naive-to-stupid.
2. Ayer's Foundations of Empirical Knowledge took the notion of "sense datum" which Russell had introduced, following G.E. Moore's celebrated Refutation of Idealism ("awareness of blue isn't blue") and placed it on a linguistic basis. The "sense datum language", contrasting with "the physical object language", are alternative ways of describing the totality of experience, not metaphysical alternatives. This was, and is, decisive. It was taken up by Roderick Chisholm in his "theory of appearing", which tried to accomodate the conclusion thrust on the mind by the causal theory of perception ("the contents of your experience are mediated by the anatomical preparation*" -- Freud's term) in ordinary language philosophy. That grounded out. All in all, NO SYSTEMATIC THINKER (least of all Chomsky, who isn't really systematic at all, it's only a transcendental illusion of 'grammar'; same disease as textualism; took out Strawson, Harre and all of Wittgenstein's Oxford entourage) has done squat with consciousness. So they turned it over to the occult, surviving Dead Heads (note oxymoron), various esoterics and the Y gen.
(The key lies in the stratification of discourse into token-types. The "sense datum language" is the description of experience under signs used for objects taken phenomenally (cf. Descartes' Meditation 3). This is sign-use level S*2 in my arrangement, S*1 being dreams (phenomenal content produced by inter-psychic processes). S*3 is the language of physical objects, required to complete what S*1 posits -- the manifold of neurological firings (hypothetica totality of material causes of conscious content) that pass over into communication.)
You know you are in the presence of Jew
when your words are repeated without comment,
as if (right minded)* monkeys know just what to do.
__________________
Everything is two
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