Carnap in a sentence

He wrote a letter to Russell, who responded by copying by hand long passages from his Principia Mathematica for Carnap's benefit, as neither Carnap nor his university could afford a copy of this epochal work.

Carlson’s research primarily concerns related issues in epistemology, philosophy of logic, philosophy of science, philosophy of mathematics, and the history of analytic philosophy, particularly Frege, Carnap, and Quine.

As Neurath and somewhat Carnap posed science toward social reform, the split in Vienna Circle also reflected political views.

Carnap (1963) later expressed some irritation about his time at Chicago, where he and Charles W. Morris were the only members of the department committed to the primacy of science and logic.

Carnap elaborated and extended the concept of logical syntax proposed by Wittgenstein in the Tractatus (Section 3.325).

Carnap had four children by his first marriage to Elizabeth Schöndube, which ended in divorce in 1929.

Carnap, R. An introduction to the Philosophy of Science Experimental tests of general relativity have confirmed that non-Euclidean geometries provide a better model for the shape of space.

Carnap, R, An introduction to the philosophy of science, p. 148 Since Euclidean geometry is simpler than non-Euclidean geometry, he assumed the former would always be used to describe the 'true' geometry of the world.

Carnap, R, An introduction to the philosophy of science, p. 177-178 According to Kant, knowledge about space is synthetic, in that statements about space are not simply true by virtue of the meaning of the words in the statement.

Carnap's construction of the world : the Aufbau and the emergence of logical empiricism.

Carnap's critique of Heidegger's "What is Metaphysics".

Carnap stated: Philosophy is to be replaced by the logic of science – that is to say, by the logical analysis of the concepts and sentences of the sciences, for the logic of science is nothing other than the logical syntax of the language of science.

Carnap then wrote another thesis in 1921, with Bauch's supervision, on the theory of space in a more orthodox Kantian style, and published as Der Raum ("Space") in a supplemental issue of Kant-Studien (1922).

Carnap used the mail regularly to discuss philosophical problems with hundreds of others.

Confirmation In an important pair of papers in 1936 and 1937, "Testability and meaning", Carnap replaced verification with confirmation, on the view that although universal laws cannot be verified they can be confirmed.

Consistency and criticisms According to Carnap 's "Logicist Foundations of Mathematics", Russell wanted a theory that could plausibly be said to derive all of mathematics from purely logical axioms.

Examples of these different views can be found in Scheffler's Anatomy of Inquiry, Ayer's Language, Truth, and Logic, Schlick's "Positivism and realism" (reprinted in Sarkar 1996 and Ayer 1959), and Carnap's Philosophy and Logical Syntax.

Gödel announced his first incompleteness theorem to Carnap, Feigel and Waismann on August 26, 1930; all four would attend a key conference in Königsberg the following week.

Gödel decided that to pursue the matter further was pointless, and Carnap agreed (Dawson:77).

He largely broke off formal relations even with these members of the circle after coming to believe Carnap had used some of his ideas without permission.