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Vienna Circle


 

The Vienna Circle was a group of philosophers and scientists organized in Vienna under Moritz Schlick. They met weekly, for the most part, beginning in 1922 and ending in 1936, when Schlick was shot to death by an irate graduate student, Johann Nelböck. Many members had left Austria during the rise of the Nazi party. The Circle clashed with the Nazi party over its ideological and mysticism-based scientific research. Their approach to philosophy came to be known as logical positivism.

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