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Rudolf Carnap (/ ˈ k ɑːr n æ p /; [20] German: [ˈkaʁnaːp]; 18 May 1891 – 14 September 1970) was a German-language philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter.
Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic (1947; enlarged edition 1956) is a book about semantics and modal logic by the philosopher Rudolf Carnap.The book, in which Carnap discusses the nature of linguistic expressions, was a continuation of his previous work in semantics in Introduction to Semantics (1942) and Formalization of Logic (1943).
In 1930 Rudolf Carnap and Hans Reichenbach undertook the editorship of the journal Erkenntnis, which was published between 1930 and 1940 (from 1939 the editors were Otto Neurath, Rudolf Carnap and Charles Morris). The following is the list of works published in the two collections edited by the Vienna Circle.
The Rudolf Carnap Papers are a large collection of documents and photographs that record much of the life and career of German philosopher Rudolf Carnap.They are used by scholars and historians not only for research into his life, but also for research into his theories and the theories of other scholars with whom he corresponded.
The paper used, as a logical language for describing neural networks, "Language II" from The Logical Syntax of Language by Rudolf Carnap with some notations taken from Principia Mathematica by Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell. Language II covers substantial parts of classical mathematics, including real analysis and portions of set ...
— Rudolf Carnap, "Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology" The utility of a linguistic framework constitutes issues that Carnap calls 'external' or 'pragmatic'. “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.
Rudolf Carnap, Otto Neurath, Hans Hahn and Philipp Frank led a faction seeking to make the verifiability criterion more inclusive, beginning a movement they referred to as the "liberalization of empiricism". Moritz Schlick and Friedrich Waismann led a "conservative wing" that maintained a strict verificationism.
The following is the statement about the series as it appears on the title page of Rudolf Carnap's book The Logical Syntax of Language (1937) [1] published in the series in 1959: The purpose of The International Library is to give expression, in a convenient format at moderate price, to the remarkable developments which have recently occurred ...