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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 5. Modern Philosophy / c. Modern philosophy mid-period

[overview of philosophy in Europe 1921 - 1955]

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12330	In ontology, logic dominated language, until logic was mathematized [Badiou]
	Full Idea: From Aristotle to Hegel, logic was the philosophical category of ontology's dominion over language. The mathematization of logic has authorized language to become that which seizes philosophy for itself.
	From: Alain Badiou (Briefings on Existence [1998], 8)

13966	Analytic philosophy loved the necessary a priori analytic, linguistic modality, and rigour [Soames]
	Full Idea: The golden age of analytic philosophy (mid 20th c) was when necessary, a priori and analytic were one, all possibility was linguistic possibility, and the linguistic turn gave philosophy a respectable subject matter (language), and precision and rigour.
	From: Scott Soames (Significance of the Kripkean Nec A Posteriori [2006], p.166)
	A reaction: Gently sarcastic, because Soames is part of the team who have put a bomb under this view, and quite right too. Personally I think the biggest enemy in all of this lot is not 'language' but 'rigour'. A will-o-the-wisp philosophers dream of.