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Rudolf Carnap
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Rudolf Carnap The German-American philosopher Rudolf Carnap (1891-1970) was the most prominent representative of...positivism, sometimes called logical empiricism. Rudolf Carnap was born on May 18, 1891, in Ronsdorf, Germany. From...
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semantics
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Frege , Lady Welby, Bertrand Russell , Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap , Alonzo Church, Alfred Tarski, C. I. Lewis , Ludwig Wittgenstein...and Context (1981). For semantics in philosophy, see R. Carnap, Meaning and Necessity (2d ed. 1956); K. and A. Lehrer...
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Logic, Symbolic
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...experience. The best example of this is the project of Rudolf Carnap (1891 – 1970), who attempted to show how the logical...could be built up out of an elementary field of perception (Carnap 1967). This revival of empiricism was made possible by developments...
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PHILIPPINE ENGLISH
Book article from: Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
...because I have been asking you so many favours. (4) Local NEOLOGISMS : agrupation (from Spanish agrupación ) a group, captain-ball team captain in basketball, carnap to steal (kidnap) a car, cope up to keep up and cope wit
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Willard Van Orman Quine
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...circle of logical positivist philosophers flourished, studied mathematical logic at Warsaw, and in Prague, befriended Rudolf Carnap, a leader of the logical positivist movement. Quine's A System of Logic (1934) contributed significantly to the development...
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Friedrich Albert Moritz Schlick
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...of men interested in scientific philosophy, logic, and mathematics. The group included among others Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap, Herbert Feigl, Friedrich Waismann, and Kurt G ö del and later the English philosophers Alfred Ayer and Susan Stebbing...
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Herbert Feigl
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...his immigration to the United States in 1930, and played a not unimportant role in the formulation of its ideology. Rudolf Carnap and the mathematician Kurt Goedel were, along with Schlick, the leading names of the Vienna Circle and the school of philosophy...
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Philosophy of Science
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...determine quantitatively how probable the conclusion is, given its premises (the evidence). The logical positivist Rudolf Carnap (1891 – 1970) sought to develop such a logic of confirmation. Other models of confirmation, such as Bayesian and...
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Positivism, Logical
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
...Circle The fame and influence of the Vienna Circle began to be felt in the 1930's. Such eminent figures as philosophers Rudolf Carnap (1891 – 1970), Herbert Feigl (1902 – 1988), and Friedrich Waismann (1896 – 1959), mathematician...
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W. V. Quine
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1930. He studied at Harvard (Ph.D., 1932) under Alfred North Whitehead and in Europe, where he was influenced by Rudolf Carnap . He taught at Harvard (1936-78), becoming Edgar Pierce professor of philosophy there in 1955. Much of Quine's philosophical...
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