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Carnap, Rudolf
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Carnap, Rudolf (1891-1970)

German philosopher, in the USA from 1935. He was a member of the Vienna Circle and an exponent of logical positivism, the theory that the only meaningful propositions are those that can be verified empirically. He tried to show that metaphysics arose from a confusion between talk about the world and talk about language.

Carnap was born in Wuppertal. He was professor of philosophy at the University of California 1954-62.

His books include The Logical Syntax of Language 1934 and Meaning and Necessity 1956.



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Carnap (1938) defines pragmatics as such: "If in an investigation explicit reference is made to the speaker, or to put it in more general terms, to the user of the language, then we assign it to the field of pragmatics.
Deixis and EFL reading comprehension by Khabiri, Mona / Academic Exchange Quarterly
Many of us who came of scientific age during the '50s and '60s were deeply influenced by positivist philosophers such as Carnap, Frank, Hempel, Langer, Lindsay, Margenau, Nagel, Northrop, Quine, Reichenbach, and Skinner.
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5) Laudan's (1977) critique of those who try to demarcate science from non-science is telling, for each philosopher tried to design criteria to exclude specific beliefs that he finds objectionable: Aristotle excluded Hippocratic medicine, Carnap ruled out Bergsonian metaphysics, and Popper put Freud and Marx beyond the Pale.
Patterns of knowledge communities in the social sciences by Pahre, Robert / Library Trends
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