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==== Logical Positivists ====
 
==== Logical Positivists ====
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The [[Vienna Circle]] philosophers, most notably [[Moritz Schlick]], [[Rudolf Carnap]], [[Herbert Feigl]], [[Kurt Godel]], and [[Otto Neurath]] established a rigorous tradition called "Logical Empiricism", but usually referred to as [[logical positivism]].  This tradition, a stricter development of [[Auguste Comte]]'s positivism, is no longer an active research program, unlike [[Existentialism]] and [[Phenomenology]].
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The [[Vienna Circle]] philosophers, most notably [[Moritz Schlick]], [[Rudolf Carnap]], [[Herbert Feigl]], the famous mathematician [[Kurt Godel]], and [[Otto Neurath]] established a rigorous tradition called "Logical Empiricism", but usually referred to as [[logical positivism]].  This tradition, a stricter development of [[Auguste Comte]]'s positivism, is no longer an active research program, unlike [[Existentialism]] and [[Phenomenology]].
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Often thought of as a logical positivist [[Karl Popper]] was a fierce critic of their emphasis on verification.
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Often thought of as a logical positivist [[Karl Popper]] was in fact a fierce critic.
    
==== Structuralism ====
 
==== Structuralism ====
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