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Monster sentence, with its subject and verb after 2/3 of its bulk
At first reading, i was convinced this sentence was ungrammatical:
After delineating and explaining his points of agreement with the general principles of the positivist program and its conceptual bases (the construction of a universal system which would comprehend all of the knowledge furnished by the various sciences; the absolute rejection of metaphysics, in the sense of all propositions not translatable into verifiable scientific sentences), Neurath rejects the positivist treatment of language in general and, in particular, some of the fundamental ideas propounded by the early Wittgenstein.
It turns out to make sense, but not to be worth the effort needed to find that sense. This is a mechanical restatement:
Neurath delineates and explains his points of agreement with the general principles of the positivist program and its conceptual bases:
the construction of a universal system which would comprehend all of the knowledge furnished by the various sciences, and
the absolute rejection of metaphysics, in the sense of all propositions not translatable into verifiable scientific sentences.
He then rejects the positivist treatment of language in general and, in particular, some of the fundamental ideas propounded by the early Wittgenstein.
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BetacommandBot04:20, 10 November 2007 (UTC)reply
The article says little about Neurath's work as an economist, which was the profession in which he had been trained. Back in his native Austria he was well known as a defender of both the feasibility and desirability of economic planning. It was precisely his defence of economic planning that would provoke
Ludwig von Mises into penning his famous 1920 article, "
Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth." Neurath also debated the issue with
Friedrich Hayek as well.
JimFarm (
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00:36, 21 February 2012 (UTC)reply
Neurath's economics and politics were a little more nuanced than that. He had pretty fierce disagreements with other Marxists over some basics, and as often as not found himself in the middle of arguments of the time.
Vindemiatrix (
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00:27, 29 July 2013 (UTC)reply
Arguably, some of Neurath's positions were more radical those those held by other Marxists at that time. He was a strong defender of the feasibility and desirability of a moneyless economy, a position that was rejected by
Karl Kautsky, who was the leading orthodox Marxist of that time.
JimFarm (
talk)
00:45, 2 December 2013 (UTC)reply