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Carnap Rudolf. 1891--1970, US logical positivist philosopher, born in Germany: attempted to construct a formal language for the empirical sciences that would eliminate ambiguity How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Carnap (1938) defines pragmatics as such: "If in an investigation explicit reference is made to the speaker, or to put it in more general terms, to the user of the language, then we assign it to the field of pragmatics. Many of us who came of scientific age during the '50s and '60s were deeply influenced by positivist philosophers such as Carnap, Frank, Hempel, Langer, Lindsay, Margenau, Nagel, Northrop, Quine, Reichenbach, and Skinner. 5) Laudan's (1977) critique of those who try to demarcate science from non-science is telling, for each philosopher tried to design criteria to exclude specific beliefs that he finds objectionable: Aristotle excluded Hippocratic medicine, Carnap ruled out Bergsonian metaphysics, and Popper put Freud and Marx beyond the Pale. |
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