 Contemporary analytic philosophers, feminist and nonfeminist, can be characterized roughly as follows: they consider (some of)  Frege,  Russell,  Moore,  Wittgenstein, and the  Logical Positivists  to be their intellectual ancestors; they tend to prize explicit argumentation and the literal, precise, and clear use of language; they often value the roles of philosophy of language, epistemology, and logic; and they typically view their stock of philosophical concepts, methods, and assumptions to be a) consistent with their Modern European heritage, and b) in contrast with methods originating in continental Europe since 1900, from phenomenology and existentialism through poststructuralism and new materialism.