70. Hume's Fork, Logical Positivism, & Quine | THUNK

Logical positivism ran with Hume's analytic/synthetic distinction...turns out running with forks is a bad idea.

Links for the Curious

Hume's "An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding," where he posited the analytic/synthetic distinction - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/9662/...

AJ Ayer's "Language, Truth, & Logic," one of the most popular logical positivist works published - http://s-f-walker.org.uk/pubsebooks/p...

Quine's "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" - http://www.ditext.com/quine/quine.html

Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus," one of the inspirational texts for the Vienna Circle - https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5740/...

A fantastic interview with AJ Ayer regarding the formation/development logical positivism, its collapse, & its wider effects -    • Ayer on Logical Positivism: Section 1  

Carnap's "The Elimination of Metaphysics" - http://www.calstatela.edu/sites/defau...

"The Partially Examined Life" podcast on Quine's work targeting logical positivism - http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/...

The Reddit thread where various philosophy buffs helped me straighten out -   / mistaking_intuition_for_logic_results_in