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The school of analytic philosophy has made a noticeable impact on academic philosophy in various regions in the world most Great Britain and the United States since the early twentieth century. It originated around the turn of the twentieth century as G.E. Moore and Bertrand Russell broke away from what was then the dominant school in the British Universities Absolute Idealism. Many would also include Gotlob Frege as a founder of analytic philosophy in the late nineteenth century. Urmson writes "Russell and Moore, the co-founder of the analytic movement, were at first in reaction against Bradley and the Neo-Hegelian philosophers a reaction only the stronger because both Moore and Russell had been admirers and, more or less, followers of Bradley in their philosophical youth."1 When Moore and Russell articulated their alternative to idealism, they used linguistic idioms frequently basing their arguments on the 'meanings' of terms and 'propositions'. Additionally, Russell believed that the grammar of natural language often is philosophically misleading and that the way to dispel the illusion is to re-express propositions in the ideal formal language of symbolic logic, there by revealing their true logical form. Because of this emphasis on language, analytic philosophy was widely though perhaps mistakenly taken to involve a turn toward language as the subject matter of philosophy, and it was taken to involve an accompanying methodological turn towards linguistic analysis. Thus on the traditional view, analytic philosophy was born in this linguistic turn. The linguistic conception of philosophy was seen as novel in the history of Philosophy. For this reason analytic philosophy is reputed to have originated in a philosophical revolution on the grand scale not merely in a revolt against British idealism, but against traditional philosophy on the whole.