The argument between the Vienna Circle and Karl Popper on the matter of the verification principle. Popper susbtituted the falsficaion principle for the verification principle. I believe that this and related issues have been at best neglected by marxism. Yet is a matter of signifcance. The problem of the entire relationship between the physical sciences, the human sciences and what is known as everyday common sense is one that needs badly to be solved. Without a solution to it communism stands on weak and unconvincing ground. Perhaps it should be recalled that the Vienna Circle contained socialists and was not a right wing intellectual circle. Even Popper had been associated with marxism in his youth. He was later to become a liberal. These people as marxism often suggests were not extreme right wing ideologues. Bertrand Russell exercised an enormous influence on the Vienna Circle and on Popper. Yet it cannot be said that he was politically reactionary.
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