One man in this intellectual movement assessed the "infelicity" of acts such as shouting "Idivorce you!"
One man in this intellectual movement assessed the "infelicity" of acts such as shouting "Idivorce you!" This movement includes a man who devised the the water substitute XYZ and TwinEarth. Pragmatist Richard Rorty attacked its failure to establish a "mirror of nature." HilaryPutnam and performative utterance theorist J.L. Austin were in this movement, whose papers oftenshow arguments with numbered premises. Common (*) sense defender G.E. Moore helped start thislargely Anglo-American movement. Contrasted with continental philosophy, it grew out of logicalpositivism and pays close attention to logic and language. For 10 points, name this type of contemporaryphilosophy that shares its name with a kind of definitional, non-synthetic truth.
One man in this intellectual movement assessed the "infelicity" of acts such as shouting "Idivorce you!"
analytic philosophy [or analytical philosophy; prompt on "philosophy"; prompt on "philosophy of language"; prompt on the "linguistic turn"; prompt on ideal "language" philosophy; prompt on ordinary "language" philosophy; prompt on "British," "American," or "Anglo-American" philosophy until "Anglo-American" is read; prompt on answers indicating contemporary or recent philosophy]