I sort of made a joke about this, but I don't think it was all that bad especially when one considers the response. You are not giving logical positivism its due! ;-) I mean, analytical philosophy, including some with consideration of linguistic issues (thanks to W's relationship with Russell), flourished in the 20th century -- an entirely new (AFAIK) and fruitful sub-field -- philosophy of science -- was born, (explicitly) spawning off Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy of Biology (Sober, Kitcher, Buller), etc. But a lot of [IMHO] naive philosophical adventures by non-philosophers in the 20th century, often in the form of attacks against philosophy as a general programme (including the linguistic turn) was an outcome of [nascent or triumphal] logical positivism, I think.
--ravi
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