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Comment author: lukeprog 29 November 2011 12:01:16AM 5 points [-]

I meant only that analytic philosophy is a "self-updating reliably transmittable well oiled machine." Within 30 years it took over most of philosophy in the English-speaking in world, and much of philosophy elsewhere, and in some ways it remains the dominant school, if the analytic-continental distinction works at all anymore.