Rudolf Carnap Quotes

• Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

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  Philosophy, Science, Confusion

  Rudolf Carnap (2013). “The Unity of Science”, p.12, Routledge

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• Anything you can do, I can do meta

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  Can Do, I Can

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• In logic, there are no morals.

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  Moral, Logic, Relatable

  Rudolf Carnap (2014). “Logical Syntax of Language”, p.52, Routledge

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• Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.

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  Science, Scientific Method, Accounts

  Rudolf Carnap (2013). “The Unity of Science”, p.24, Routledge

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• In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

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  Depth, Surface

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• Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

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  Musical Ability, Musician, Without Music

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• It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

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  Order, Facts, Lows

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• If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.

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  Bridges, Different, Division

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• Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.

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  Tolerance, Examination, Form

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• The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.

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  Self, Expression, Class

  Rudolf Carnap, Rolf A. George (1969). “The Logical Structure of the World: And, Pseudoproblems in Philosophy”, p.299, Open Court Publishing

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