The Spell of Linguistic Philosophy
Show: Men of Ideas --> Season: 1 - Season 1
AirDate: 3/2/1978
Runtime: 46
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Overview: In this program, world-renowned author and professor Bryan Magee and Bernard Williams of Cambridge University discuss linguistic philosophy—an offshoot of logical positivism—which argues that sentences can have no meaning beyond that which humans give them because language is a human invention.