analytical philosophy

noun

1. a school of philosophy which flourished in the first half of the 20th century and which sought to resolve philosophical problems by analysing the language in which they are expressed, esp in terms of formal logic as in Russell's theory of descriptions Compare linguistic philosophy

Example Sentences

He is the author of several books on analytical philosophy and the philosophy of art; and winner of the the National Book Critics Prize for Criticism in 1990, as well as Le Prix Philosophie for “The Madonna of the Future.”

From New York Times

Surrogates for religion, Kaufmann says, include political movements like the New Left, and schools of thought such as analytical philosophy, Marxism and psychoanalysis.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have been traced such a coarse pattern as it was doomed to receive; why so often the coarse appropriates the finer thus, the wrong man the woman, the wrong woman the man, many thousand years of analytical philosophy have failed to explain to our sense of order.

From Project Gutenberg

His old analytical philosophy resumed its functions.

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