The aim of the philosophy is to clarify the meaning of the language which realized by philosophers and who had been found “Analytical Philosophy”. Bradley’s students Bertrand Russell, G.E.Moore found the analytical philosophy. But they didn’t accept Bradley’s statements and opinions and they tried to solve language problems in different ways. And Leibniz, Bertrand Russell joined together to solve language analytical problems. Then he joined with whitehead and released “Principia Mathematica” book in 1910.
Bertrand Russell tried to solve language problems. Through mathematical philosophy he created Logical Atomism G.E.Moore had different ideas that philosophy is to be clarify language of the normal people (Public language)
Example I. Souls are existing
- Students are in my class room
First one is impossible to experiment or test in the empirical world but second one is possible in the empirical world. So he stated that souls and god words has to be clarified.
Analytical philosophy developed massively in the Tend to period Wittgenstein. He claimed understanding of the meaning of the language in “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, “Philosophical Investigation”.
Vienna circle researched problems before 1932 and the created Logical positivism to separate meaningful statements and non meaningful statement. They concerned Meta physical, ethics, aesthetics, scientific words, terms are meaning. Therefore analytical philosophy expanded or spread in ethics political and science. So language analysis development can be understood through below theories.
- Logical atomism
- Logical positivism
- Language analysis