5 Quotes & Sayings By Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap was born in Berlin, Germany on August 28, 1891. He was a philosopher and logician who worked in the field of philosophy of science from about 1924 until his death in 1970. He is often called the founding figure of analytic philosophy. Beginning with his work in logic, he became one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century Read more

He is best known for his book Ideas: A History of a Concept from 1948.

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