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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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