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Carnap and Lewis on the External World
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2014 This paper compares the claims about our knowledge of the external world presented by Rudolf Carnap, in the book known as the Aufbau, to those of Clarence Irving Lewis, in Mind and the World-Order.
Ivan Ferreira da Cunha
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Why There Can\u27t be a Logic of Induction [PDF]
, 1994 Carap\u27s attempt to develop an inductive logic has been criticized on a variety of grounds, and while there may be some philosophers who believe that difficulties with Carnap\u27s approach can be overcome by further elaborations and modifications of ...
Glennan, Stuart
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Carnap’s epistemological critique of metaphysics
Synthese, 2018 Many who take a dismissive attitude towards metaphysics trace their view back to Carnap’s ‘Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology’ (1950a). But the reason Carnap takes a dismissive attitude to metaphysics is a matter of controversy.
D. Bradley
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Schlick and Carnap on Definitions
, 2023 In the 1920s, Carnap and Schlick both made an important use of definitions in their main publications: Schlick, in his Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre (1918, 2 nd ed. 1925) and Carnap in Der logische Aufbau der Welt (1928, mostly written by 1925). This paper first provides an analysis of the kinds of definitions which are distinguished in these books and a ...
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Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper is about the hierarchy view: that each word has infinitely many meanings, arranged into levels, with the level n meaning serving as its semantic value when it occurs embedded to degree n in indirect or attitude reporting verbs. Departing from the famous debates over the bare tenability of the hierarchy view, I focus on whether there
Mark McCullagh
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Gödel Meets Carnap: A Prototypical Discourse on Science and Religion
Zygon, 1997 Modern science, based on the laws of physics, claims validity for all events in space and time. However, it also reveals its own limitations, such as the indeterminacy of quantum physics, the limits of decidability, and, presumably, limits of ...
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La constitución de objetos físicos en el Aufbau: Quine contra Carnap
Crítica, 2019 En este artículo se sugiere que el argumento de Quine contra el reduccionismo radical de Carnap (segundo dogma del empirismo) exhibe de manera incompleta el fundamento del proyecto de Carnap recogido en Der logische Aufbau der Welt.
Carlos Alberto Cardona Suárez
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Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the fact that the concept of categoricity is ubiquitous in contemporary metaphysics, it is hard to find a suitable characterization of categoricity. I hold that the absence of such a characterization is responsible for much confusion and debate regarding categorical properties and their relationship to dispositions.
Sungho Choi
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LOS REVISIONISTAS DE CARNAP Y LA LÓGICA DE LA CIENCIA
Prometeus: Filosofia em Revista, 2012 Nos últimos anos, vários autores ‘revisionistas’ tentaram reinterpretar a obra do maisrepresentativo dos filósofos do movimento denominado ‘positivismo lógico’: Rudolf Carnap.Surpreendentemente, surge nos textos destes autores a imagem de um Carnap não ...
Sergio Hugo Menna
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, 2017 In this paper I present critical evaluations of Ayer and Putnam's views on the analyticity of geometry. By drawing on the historico-philosophical work of Michael Friedman on the relativized apriori; and Roberto Torretti on the foundations of geometry, I ...
Mwakima, David
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