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From Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium

Analytic philosophy refers to the type of philosophy that has, since the early part of the twentieth century, been predominantly taught and practiced in the universities of the United States and the United Kingdom. Originating with G. E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Gottlob Frege and the Vienna Circle, analytic philosophy attempts to perform linguistic analysis on concepts. Before analytic philosophy came about, idealism was the influential philosophical school in British universities with philosophers like Bernard Bosanquet and F. H. Bradley claiming that the world is a single unified, spiritual Ideal. Moore, Russell and others pushed for an "ordinary language" and "common sense" approach to the world.