Talk:Otto Neurath

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Monster sentence, with its subject and verb after 2/3 of its bulk

At first reading, i was convinced this sentence was ungrammatical:

After delineating and explaining his points of agreement with the general principles of the positivist program and its conceptual bases (the construction of a universal system which would comprehend all of the knowledge furnished by the various sciences; the absolute rejection of metaphysics, in the sense of all propositions not translatable into verifiable scientific sentences), Neurath rejects the positivist treatment of language in general and, in particular, some of the fundamental ideas propounded by the early Wittgenstein.

It turns out to make sense, but not to be worth the effort needed to find that sense. This is a mechanical restatement:

Neurath delineates and explains his points of agreement with the general principles of the positivist program and its conceptual bases:

the construction of a universal system which would comprehend all of the knowledge furnished by the various sciences, and
the absolute rejection of metaphysics, in the sense of all propositions not translatable into verifiable scientific sentences.

He then rejects the positivist treatment of language in general and, in particular, some of the fundamental ideas propounded by the early Wittgenstein.

I am replacing accordingly, and then replacing some other obtuse wordings within it.
-Jerzy•t 17:18, 6 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I think the sentence is just fine and easily understandable. 76.130.134.87 (talk) 76.130.134.87 (talk) 01:39, 9 July 2022 (UTC)[reply]

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This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 04:20, 10 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Comintern official?

Neurath is listed in Comintern officials as member of Comintern Executive Committee from Czechoslovakia. Is it Otto Neurath or some other person?DonaldDuck (talk) 11:18, 24 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Worksection removed

Due to possible violation of copyright, see WP:Copyvio, I have removed the worksection of this article for now. -- Marcel Douwe Dekker (talk) 09:24, 10 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Neurath as economist

The article says little about Neurath's work as an economist, which was the profession in which he had been trained. Back in his native Austria he was well known as a defender of both the feasibility and desirability of economic planning. It was precisely his defence of economic planning that would provoke Ludwig von Mises into penning his famous 1920 article, "Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth." Neurath also debated the issue with Friedrich Hayek as well. JimFarm (talk) 00:36, 21 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

And Neurath was a Marxist too, which is not even mentioned in the article. Mfhiller (talk) 10:07, 26 April 2012 (UTC)mfhiller[reply]

Neurath's economics and politics were a little more nuanced than that. He had pretty fierce disagreements with other Marxists over some basics, and as often as not found himself in the middle of arguments of the time. Vindemiatrix (talk) 00:27, 29 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Arguably, some of Neurath's positions were more radical those those held by other Marxists at that time. He was a strong defender of the feasibility and desirability of a moneyless economy, a position that was rejected by Karl Kautsky, who was the leading orthodox Marxist of that time. JimFarm (talk) 00:45, 2 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]