I have read a couple of essays from A. J. Ayer's anthology Logical Positivism recently, and I would like to chew on the ideas presented in these essays in order to figure out exactly what points of similarity and difference there are between logical positivism and Objectivism. I think this will be useful for my understanding of the history of philosophy, partly because logical positivism was one of the worldviews that Ayn Rand was reacting to.   One of the essays I read was "Logical Atomism" b