Rudolf Carnap on Life
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Rudolf Carnap, catalogued under life, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Rudolf Carnap, entry #74357: "For those who want to develop or use semantical methods, the decisive question is not the alleged ontological question of the existence of abstract entities but rather the questio…"
Attributed to Rudolf Carnap, entry #188487: "To be sure, we have to face at this point an important question; but it is a practical, not a theoretical question; it is the question of whether or not to accept the new linguist…"
2 Quotes by Rudolf Carnap on Life
"For those who want to develop or use semantical methods, the decisive question is not the alleged ontological question of the existence of abstract entities but rather the question whether the rise of abstract linguistic forms or, in technical terms, the use of variables beyond those for things , is expedient and fruitful for the purposes for which semantical analyses are made, viz. the analysis, interpretation, clarification, or construction of languages of communication, especially languages of science."
"To be sure, we have to face at this point an important question; but it is a practical, not a theoretical question; it is the question of whether or not to accept the new linguistic forms. The acceptance cannot be judged as being either true or false because it is not an assertion. It can only be judged as being more or less expedient, fruitful, conducive to the aim for which the language is intended. Judgments of this kind supply the motivation for the decision of accepting or rejecting the kind of entities."