Positivism

Positivism is an intellectual or artistic movement that has shaped the ideas of many notable thinkers throughout history.

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

Rudolf Carnap· b. 1891View quote →

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"A decisive difference between our method and Frege's consists in the fact that our concepts, in distinction to Frege's, are independent of the context."

"Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and partly because in so doing it imitates the natural utterances of excitement."

"The correct reading of \vdash p written down by me in good faith is therefore 'I believe p, or some other words expressing the same fiduciary act."

"I see philosophy as a fairly abstract activity, as concerned mainly with the analysis of criticism and concepts, and of course most usefully of scientific concepts."

"The positive philosophy of Auguste Comte, freely translated and condensed by Harriet Martineau, in the Cornell University Library Historical Monographs Collection"

"Shakespeare is a good raft whereon to float securely down the stream of time; fasten yourself to that and your immortality is safe."

"Literature has had little to say of the labourer; and this, not that his class is lacking in interest, in poetry, in romance, but simply because those sections of society to which writers belong know nothing about him."

"A physical theory reputed to be satisfactory by the sectarians of one metaphysical school will be rejected by the partisans of another school."

"Philosophy is not a system of propositions, and not a science."

"The production of a work of art is determined by the material and intellectual climate in which a man lives and dies."

"The feeling of justice thus arises out of two errors, namely, because the punishments inflicted by authorities and educators appear as acts of retribution, and because people believe in the freedom of the will."

"If we would stand up and be counted on the side of reason, we ought to drop terms like 'pseudoscience' and 'unscientific' from our vocabulary; they are just hollow phrases which do only emotive work for us."

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"If someone wishes to speak in his language about a new kind of entities, he has to introduce a system of new ways of speaking, subject to new rules; we shall call this procedure the construction of a linguistic framework for the new entities in question."

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"After the new forms are introduced into the language, it is possible to formulate with their help internal questions and possible answers to them. A question of this kind may be either empirical or logical; accordingly a true answer is either factually true or analytic."

— Rudolf Carnap, b. 1891View →

"A decisive difference between our method and Frege's consists in the fact that our concepts, in distinction to Frege's, are independent of the context."

— Rudolf Carnap, b. 1891View →

"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."

— Rudolf Carnap, b. 1891View →

"Rudolf Carnap Webpage and Directory of Internet Resources"

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