“What Is Wrong With Our Thoughts? A Neo-Positivist Credo [Ch7, The Plato Cult and Other Philosophical Follies]”, 1991 (; backlinks; similar):
[Fierce but witty critique by David Stove of philosophy throughout the ages and defense of Logical Positivism, with Christian theology, Neoplatonism, and German Idealism as examples.
Logical Positivists took the easy way out: the problem with these philosophies is not that they are gibberish or meaningless, because at least then they would all be wrong in the same way and could perhaps be refuted in the same way, but that they each are wrong in a myriad of different ways, ways for which we have no existing “fallacy” defined, entire universes of new errors—undermining the hope of using reason or philosophy to make any kind of progress.
What is wrong with philosophy, and ourselves, if we cannot even explain why these are so badly wrong after millennia of thought and debate?]