On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 14:27:58 -0400 "Charles Brown"
<cbrown at michiganlegal.org> writes:
> CB: Now that I think about it, I think it was A.J. Ayer, not W. , who
> you
> once said this about, maybe.
Ayer admitted in his autobiography, *A Part of My Life* that Lenin had been correct in perceiving that Machist positivism (like the sort that Ayer, himself, had championed in his *Language, Truth, and Logic) was very much rooted in Berekeleyian subjective idealism. Then again, in *Language, Truth, and Logic*, Ayer pointed out in passing that it was a development of a stream of thought that began with Berkeley.
> ^^^^^^^
>
>
> Roy Wood Sellars who was a leading defender of realism,
> naturalism and materialism in the first half of the 20th
> century was the father of Wilfrid Sellars, who was one
> of the dominant figures in analytic philosophy after
> WW II. But then again, Wilfrid Sellars who was the
> most analytical of analytical philosophers professed
> to be an admirer of Engels.
>
> Jim F.
>
> ^^^^^^
> CB: Jim, didn't that hack Wittgenstein , at the end of his career,
> agree
> with Lenin on the main point of _Materialism ' _, the existence of
> objective
> reality ?.
> ^^^^
>
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