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Carnap

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Car·nap  (kärnäp, -np), Rudolf 1891-1970.
German-born American philosopher whose antimetaphysical views, set forth in such works as The Logical Structure of the World (1928) and The Logical Foundations of Probability (1950), were central to the development of logical positivism.
Carnap [ˈkɑːnæp]
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(Biographies / Carnap, Rudolf (1891-1970) M, USnational of birth: German, PHILOSOPHY: philosopher) Rudolf. 1891-1970, US logical positivist philosopher, born in Germany: attempted to construct a formal language for the empirical sciences that would eliminate ambiguity


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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.
Deixis and EFL reading comprehension by Khabiri, Mona / Academic Exchange Quarterly
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.
Science vs. religion (I): some tough questions by Raymo, Chet / Commonweal
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.
Patterns of knowledge communities in the social sciences by Pahre, Robert / Library Trends
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