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Carnap’s Early Semantics

Erkenntnis, 2012
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With Carnap, Beyond Carnap:

1994
Si avanza una nuova interpretazione della posizione assunta da Carnap nella controversia fra realisti e strumentalisti. Tale interpretazione porta in primo piano l'idea, fino ad allora trascurata, della 'neutralità ontologica'. Attraverso l'esame della controversia sull'ontologia fra Quine e Carnap viene difesa su basi rinnovate una concezione anti ...
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Fraenkel-Carnap properties

MLQ, 2005
Summary: In the 1920's Fraenkel and Carnap raised the question of whether or not every finitely axiomatizable semantically complete theory formulated in the theory of types is categorical. Partial answers to this and a related question are presented for theories formulated in second-order logic.
George Weaver, Benjamin R. George
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Carnap

2002
AbstractIn Vienna during the 1920s there emerged a group of philosophers — the logical positivists — who wished to deny that any metaphysical questions were meaningful. Although they held much of the Tractatus in high regard, they took the parts of it which gestured towards the unsayable — especially the mystical sections near the end of the book — to ...
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Carnap on Logic and Experience

2002
In recent years, attention for the work of Rudolf Carnap has shifted from polemical discussion to placing Carnap in his intellectual context. Thus, the central question is no longer whether Carnap contributes to solving our current problems, but whether he solved the problems of his day and age.
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Carnap and the Perils of Ramseyfication

2009
Frank Ramsey's proposed regimentation of the theoretical terms of scientific theories has been much discussed recently as an articulation of the position of "structural realism", a position intended to take its place between scientific realism and its denials. My concern here is different. It is to consider what the now standard criticism of the method
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Carnap’s ramseyfications defended

European Journal for Philosophy of Science, 2010
This paper seeks to evaluate the potential of the Newman objection to function as an immanent critique of Carnap's use of the Ramsey method of regimenting scientific theories. Stress is laid on the distinctive way in which ramseyfications are used by Carnap to formulate the analytic/synthetic distinction for the theoretical language and on the ...
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Carnap on Probability and Induction

2007
INTRODUCTION This chapter discusses Carnap's work on probability and induction, using the notation and terminology of modern mathematical probability, viewed from the perspective of the Bayesian or subjective school of probability. Carnap initially used a logical notation and terminology that made his work accessible and interesting to a generation ...
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Carnap and translational indeterminacy

Synthese, 1995
InWord and Object W. V. Quine argues that there is no uniquely correct way to assign referents to the terms of a language; any claim about the reference of a term is implicitly relative to a manual of translation. To Rudolf Carnap this must have seemed familiar.
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Carnap’s Encounter with Pragmatism

2012
LLogical empiricism and pragmatism shared an empiricist orientation, a close interest in the sciences and their methods, and skepticism about propositions which cannot be empirically tested or verified. Both movements came into direct contact in the first half of the 1930s, shortly after the beginning of the so-called public phase of logical empiricism
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