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So today's episodes on a group of thinkers known as the logical positivists.

Now sometimes when I'm in the very beginning stages of creating one of these podcasts,

something I like to do is reach out to some of the people I respect and just randomly

ask them what their general thoughts are on the subject matter of the episode, the goal

being that I don't want to waste your time as a listener under or over explaining things

and these people help me gauge how much time to spend on stuff.

Well, I asked one such person a few months ago about their thoughts on logical positivism.

And I mean, just for context, this is not somebody that isn't well read or is not into philosophy

but when I asked him for his general take on the logical positivist, he said that his

understanding of them was that at one point in time, I'm exactly sure when there was a group

of people who were extremely logical.

They were so logical.

They even had meetings talking about how logical they were and they sat around and they talked

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