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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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Among the figures whose writings appear in support of various of Mach's ideas are Mach himself, Albert Einstein, Rudolf Carnap, Paul Feyerabend, and Arthur Fine.
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Many people would agree with Wittgenstein, and in particular many philosophers have, for at least some part of their lives, shared his view: Frege, the early Bertrand Russell, the early Rudolf Carnap of the Vienna Circle, Martin Heidegger, Willard Quine, Kripke, Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, Jerry Fodor, Daniel Dennett.
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