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    Analytic method is a philosophical approach that concentrates on analyzing language and concepts to clarify meaning and discover truth. It involves using formal logic and mathematics to rigorously analyze ideas and determine if reasoning is valid. Major figures who influenced this method include Bertrand Russell, George Edward Moore, Alfred North Whitehead, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. They focused on using logic and analyzing language and its connection to reality to philosophize in a clear and rigorous manner. Critics believe analytic philosophers' own values can introduce bias into their analyses.

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    Analytic method is a philosophical approach that concentrates on analyzing language and concepts to clarify meaning and discover truth. It involves using formal logic and mathematics to rigorously analyze ideas and determine if reasoning is valid. Major figures who influenced this method include Bertrand Russell, George Edward Moore, Alfred North Whitehead, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. They focused on using logic and analyzing language and its connection to reality to philosophize in a clear and rigorous manner. Critics believe analytic philosophers' own values can introduce bias into their analyses.

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    Analytic method is a philosophical approach that concentrates on analyzing language and concepts to clarify meaning and discover truth. It involves using formal logic and mathematics to rigorously analyze ideas and determine if reasoning is valid. Major figures who influenced this method include Bertrand Russell, George Edward Moore, Alfred North Whitehead, and Ludwig Wittgenstein. They focused on using logic and analyzing language and its connection to reality to philosophize in a clear and rigorous manner. Critics believe analytic philosophers' own values can introduce bias into their analyses.

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    Analytic Method

    Glenn: Analytic method concentrates on the connection between language and


    reality. Analysis of language and concepts is central to analytic philosophy.The term
    analytic philosophy was introduced in the late 1940s. It stood for the radically new
    approach to philosophy dominating discussion in Great Britain and the U.S.

    Miles: An analytic philosopher’s main concern is to clarify the meaning of language


    and the concepts we use. This method analyzes and clarifies everything in everyday life
    through looking at language, concepts, and phenomena. Which means, the
    philosophers aim to discover truth and knowledge and not on spiritual and moral.

    Edelyn: In analytical tradition, this method must be executed through the use of formal
    logic and mathematics, there must be clarity and rigor of thought, the presence of
    methodological awareness and consciousness of assumption. This is in determining that
    the ideas and theories we think of are critically calculated and the reasoning we have,
    is honing a sense of enlightenment and understanding.

    Christiene: Critics of analytic philosophers believe that a philosopher’s values play a role
    in analysis which can produce bias which makes it hard to determine the features of
    this method because the characteristics may be different depending on the
    philosopher. It is fundamentally opposed to British Idealism, Phenomenology,
    Existentialism, and Postmodern Philosophy.

    Danielle: Let us now go to the individuals who influenced this method of philosophy.
    Analytic philosophy is usually dated from the time when two of its major figures,
    Bertrand Russell and George Edward Moore rebelled against an anti-empiricist idealism
    that had temporarily captured the English philosophical sense.

    Edelyn: Bertrand Russell is one of the founders of Analytic philosophy. According to


    Russell, it is the philosopher’s job to discover a logically ideal language—a language
    that will exhibit the nature of the world in such a way that we will not be misled by the
    accidental, imprecise surface structure of natural language. This indicates that natural
    language is not deep enough to explain the world without some misinterpretation
    happening. Russell believed that reality itself is analyzable and can be broken down
    further for clarification. He concentrated on the connection between language and
    reality.

    Chesca: Alfred North Whitehead is also one of the founders of philosophy. He believed
    in the importance and power of creativity in life. According to him, education is the
    necessary marriage of thought with action. He emphasizes the importance of
    remembering that a pupil’s mind is a growing organism. It is not a box to be ruthlessly
    packed with alien ideas. He believes that education’s purpose is to stimulate and guide
    each student’s self development.

    Myzie: Ludwig Wittgenstein also influenced analytic philosophy. He believed philosophy


    to be a critique of language. He focused heavily on logic, language, and metaphysics.
    He found a way to tie logic to metaphysics over language.

    Vic: It is also important to recognize the power of words. What gives power to words is its
    meaning, how it is defined academically and socially. It has the power to make or
    break a person, establishment, or business. Some words in some language or culture
    may mean something completely different in another culture. So we have to take
    culture and society into context when we use words.

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