I do not think that there any longer exists anything identifiable as “analytic philosophy” except in some such stylistic or sociological way. But this is not a disparaging remark, as if some legitimate expectation had been disappointed. The analytic movement in philosophy (like any movement in any discipline) worked out the dialectical consequences of a set of assumptions, and now has little more to do. The sort of optimistic faith which Russell and Carnap shared with Kant—that philosophy, its essence and right method discovered at last, had finally been placed upon the secure path of a
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