Logical Positivism

Mathewson: logical positivism is at the very top of the list of things i pretend don't exist, then we can shit on it. But that's also part of the good thing about austin, as he's part of the school called the ordinary language linguists,. So he's anti logicalpositivism, right? If if early wickenstein and bertrand russell represent logical positivism, then j l austin is basically saying, 'f*** tatschit' And they use his idea of performative, which a term, which he coined, the term performative. It didn't exist before he uttered it or wrote it down, i