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Carnap Quotes By Rudolf Carnap

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems. — Rudolf Carnap

Carnap Quotes By Rudolf Carnap

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
[Carnap's famous plea for tolerance to which W.V. Quine took exception.] — Rudolf Carnap

Carnap Quotes By Rudolf Carnap

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap

Carnap Quotes By Rudolf Carnap

In logic, there are no morals. — Rudolf Carnap

Carnap Quotes By Rudolf Carnap

Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements. — Rudolf Carnap

Carnap Quotes By Rudolf Carnap

The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level. — Rudolf Carnap

Carnap Quotes By Rudolf Carnap

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability. — Rudolf Carnap

Carnap Quotes By Rudolf Carnap

If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder. — Rudolf Carnap

Carnap Quotes By Bertrand Russell

According to Carnap, ... "reality"is a metaphysical term for which there is no legitimate use ...
We are interested in other people's loves and hates, pleasures and pains, because we are firmly persuaded
that they are as "real" as our own. We mean something we say this. — Bertrand Russell

Carnap Quotes By Rudolf Carnap

In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere. — Rudolf Carnap

Carnap Quotes By Rudolf Carnap

Anything you can do, I can do meta — Rudolf Carnap

Carnap Quotes By Hilary Putnam

It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project. — Hilary Putnam