Editing Analytic Philosophy (section)

== <span style="color: #FFFFFF;">Understanding</span> ==
Analytic philosophy is understood through '''Logical Atoms''' and '''Language Use'''.

'''1. Logical Atomism (Early Russell/Wittgenstein)''':
They believed that the world is made of "Facts," and language is a "Picture" of those facts.
* If you have a sentence like "The King of France is bald," and there is no King of France, the sentence is "Broken" logic.
* By using '''Symbolic Logic''', we can "clean up" our language so that we only talk about things that are actually real.

'''2. The 'Quiet' Philosophy (Late Wittgenstein)''':
Later, Wittgenstein changed his mind.
* He realized that language is not a "Picture," but a '''Tool'''.
* Words are like "Chess pieces." They have meaning only because we follow "Rules" when we play the "Game" of talking.
* Most philosophy happens when "language goes on holiday"—meaning we use a word (like 'Truth' or 'Time') outside of its normal game and get confused.

'''3. Meaning as Verification''':
The "Logical Positivists" were the most extreme.
* They said that "God exists" or "Stealing is wrong" are not true or false—they are '''Nonsense'''.
* Why? Because you can't "prove" them with a microscope or a math equation.
* While this was too extreme for most, it forced philosophers to be much more careful about what they claimed to know.

'''The Private Language Argument''': Wittgenstein proved that you cannot have a "Language" that only you understand. Because a "Rule" requires that someone else can check if you are following it, all meaning must be '''Social'''. This destroyed the old idea of the "Secret Inner Soul" that only I can see.
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