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| | Metaphysics of Logical Positivism |
 | | A philosophical movement is a group of philosophers, active over at least one or two generations, who more or less share a style, or an intellectual origin, and who have learned more from each other than they have from others, though they may, and often do, quite vigorously disagree among themselves. |
 | | An unexamined metaphysics, that is, one implicitly held, is for a philosopher the worst metaphysics of all. |
 | | The argument that philosophical controversies cannot be decided experimentally, for instance, serves as a bridge between the first two; again, admiration of the physical sciences may tempt one to put too high a value on the new symbolic technics and thus in the end to pay for their coveted neatness and precision with vacuity. |
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