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Article: TRAVEL DESTINATIONS: Anyone for marmot stuffing.(Features)
- Article from:
- The News Letter (Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Article date:
- July 10, 2004
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Our man Hill went to Austria looking for Julie Andrews in lederhosen, and found logical positivists and stuffed marmots. Confused? Not as much as he was when he found himself stepping off a 4,000ft mountain
IN the Twenties and Thirties, Austria was the home of the Wiener Kreis, a group of logical positivists who, having nothing else to do in the long winter evenings, invented the verifiability principle which stated that things were only meaningful if you could prove they existed.
They suffered a serious blow when the Nazis arrived in 1938, since although ...