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Also Known As	linguistic philosophy

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linguistic turn description Logical positivism Logical atomism Ordinary language analysis Speech act theory Ideal language definite description description operator atomic proposition Humanism Marxism Platonism Existentialism Aristotelianism Atomism Positivism Hegelianism Scholasticism Rationalism

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Saul Kripke

Saul Kripke

American logician and philosopher

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Sir Isaiah Berlin

British historian