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AI quietly revisits Vienna Circle's century-old quest for perfect language

The Vienna Circle's 20th-century ambition to formalize human thought, akin to mathematics, and eliminate metaphysics has been echoed by modern AI. This philosophical movement aimed for absolute precision in language and logic. The article suggests that AI is now, perhaps unintentionally, revisiting this same experimental path. AI

IMPACT Explores the philosophical underpinnings of AI's pursuit of precision in language and logic.

RANK_REASON The cluster discusses a philosophical concept and its relation to AI, framed as an opinion piece.

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    A century ago, the Vienna Circle set out to make human thought as precise as mathematics and delete metaphysics forever. How that broke, and why AI quietly re-r

    A century ago, the Vienna Circle set out to make human thought as precise as mathematics and delete metaphysics forever. How that broke, and why AI quietly re-ran the very same experiment, is one of the stranger stories in the history of ideas. # philosophy # ai https:// open.sub…