Editing Logical atomism (section)

== Influence and decline ==
The immediate effect of the ''Tractatus'' was enormous, particularly by the reception it received by the [[Vienna Circle]]. However, it is now claimed by many contemporary [[Analytic Philosophy|analytic philosophers]], that the Vienna Circle misunderstood certain sections of the ''[[Tractatus Logico Philosophicus|Tractatus]]''. The indirect effect of the method, however, was perhaps even greater long-term, especially on [[logical positivism]]. Wittgenstein eventually rejected the "atomism" of logical atomism in his posthumously published book, ''[[Philosophical Investigations]]'', and it is still debated whether or not he ever held the wide-ranging version that Russell expounded in his 1918 logical atomism lectures.<ref name=PI/> Russell, on the other hand, never abandoned logical atomism. In his 1959 ''[[My Philosophical Development]]'', Russell said that his philosophy evolved and changed many times in his life, but he described all these changes as an "evolution" stemming from his original "revolution" into logical atomism in 1899-1900:<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XjncL40ZIR0C&q=logical+atomism|title=My Philosophical Development|last=Russell|first=Bertrand|date=1995|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=9780415136013|language=en}}</ref> <blockquote>There is one major division in my philosophical work: in the years 1899-1900, I adopted the philosophy of logical atomism and the technique of Peano in mathematical logic. This was so great a revolution as to make my previous work, except such as was purely mathematical, irrelevant to everything that I did later. The change in these years was a revolution; subsequent changes have been of the nature of an evolution. (Chapter 1: "Introductory Outline")</blockquote>Even into the 1960s, Russell claimed that he "rather avoided labels" in describing his views—with the exception of "logical atomism."<ref>{{Citation|last=U.G. Krishnamurti|title=Bertrand Russell - Mankind's Future & Philosophy|date=2013-12-24|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvOcjzQ32Fw |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/gvOcjzQ32Fw |archive-date=2021-12-21 |url-status=live|access-date=2018-09-27}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

Philosophers such as [[Willard Van Orman Quine]], [[Hubert Dreyfus]] and [[Richard Rorty]] went on to adopt [[logical holism]].