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Significs and the Origins of Analytic Philosophy
- Journal of the History of Ideas
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Volume 70, Number 3, July 2009
- pp. 467-490
- 10.1353/jhi.0.0043
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In this article I bring to light a group of scientific and philosophical ideas and intellectual currents from the early era of the significs movement, contemporaneous with the origins of early analytic philosophy. Significs was a strong candidate for the science of language, meaning, and communication during the new century. Its heyday coincided with the forums of the Vienna Circle, yet its intellectual and cultural climate persisted until fading in the turmoil of the mid-century's analytic thought.