The Vienna Circle Purification Ritual

[T]o strip language to logic alone is to dam the upstream, ensuring everything that flows from it arrives already pre-purified. What was actually unprecedented about the Vienna Circle was the selected combination: the rigor of formal logic yoked to eschatological scope, with formal logic itself chosen as the purifying instrument. But to declare the slag meaningless is not to eliminate it. Unaccounted for, it sediments, and what was meant to be the clean foundation of logical blocks risks curdling into highly resistant blocks of dirt.