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David Longley writes:
>There's a lot of 'talk' about the death of Logical Positivism, and  there
>is little consensus amongst those who preach of its demise. I think Quine
>still represents all that was good in  the movement  ('Pursuit of Truth', 
>Harvard Press 1990;1992), and we will  shortly see  more in  the  iminent
>'From Stimulus to Science'.

What would there be consensus on, except that LP was dead?  (Death of
logical positism would be like the death of God, I suppose; eg. saying
that God assures the correspondence with reality simply no longer works for
us).

I did notice Quine among the signatories to a petition to deny Derrida
an honorary doctorate from U Cambridge, because his work did not meet accepted
standards of clarity and rigor.  You can imagine the scene...

LP was hostile to Austin as well.

There is a question of `talk' in philosophy.
