 The Berlin Circle and the Vienna Circle became called—or, soon, were often stereotyped as—the logical positivists or, in a milder connotation, the logical empiricists or, in any case, the neopositivists.Rejecting Kant's synthetic "a priori", they asserted Hume's fork.Staking it at the analytic/synthetic gap, they sought to dissolve confusions by freeing language from "pseudostatements".