He knows his empiricism from his logical positivism, and as you'll hear, computers found a way into his philosophy.

从逻辑实证主义中了经验主义，你将会听到，计算机找到了进入哲学方法。

If the habits of thought favoured by physical science do but sink deep enough, and no vast calamity come to check mankind in its advance to material contentment, the age of true positivism may arise.

如果物理科学所青睐思维习惯确实足够深，并且没有巨大灾难来阻止人类向物质满足进步，那么真正实证主义时代可能会出。

Now, whether you’re using it to explore the natural world or the social world, the scientific method is rooted in the philosophy known as positivism.

，无论你是用它来探索自然世界还是社会世界， 科学方法都植根于被称为实证主义哲学。

18-2LOGICAL POSITIVISM While Russell championed the cause of analytic philosophy in England, across the English Channel a handful of mathematicians, scientists, and philosophers formed a group in Vienna in the 1920s, known as the Vienna Circle.

18-2逻辑实证主义虽然罗素英国倡导分析哲学事业，但 1920 年代，少数数学家、科学家和哲学家英吉利海峡维也纳成立了一个团体，被称为维也纳圈。

The next movement in analytic philosophy—logical positivism—attempted to rid philosophy of metaphysical entities once and for all.

分析哲学下一个运动——逻辑实证主义——试图一劳永逸地摆脱哲学中形而上学实体。

In 1951 Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000) attempted to expose a more fundamental problem with empiricism that applied not only to logical positivism but to all traditional accounts of empiricism.

1951 年，威拉德·范·奥曼·奎因（Willard Van Orman Quine，1908-2000 年）试图揭露经验主义一个更根本问题，该问题不仅适用于逻辑实证主义，也适用于所有传统经验主义释。

18-2-4Quine's Critique of Empiricism By the mid-twentieth century logical positivism as a movement was largely a thing of the past.

18-2-4奎因经验主义批判 到 20 世纪中叶，逻辑实证主义作为一种运动很大程度上已成为过去。

But logical positivism was only the most recent effort to put forth an empiricist agenda.

但逻辑实证主义只是提出经验主义议程最新努力。

Although logical positivism in its classical form collapsed from the weight of its inner difficulties, its impact continues in the analytic movement, which is still concerned overwhelmingly with the usages and analysis of language.

尽管经典形式逻辑实证主义因其内困难重压而崩溃，但它影响分析运动中继续存，该运动仍然压倒性地关注语言使用和分析。