Top 10 Quotes & Sayings by Rudolf Carnap

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a German philosopher Rudolf Carnap.
Last updated on November 18, 2024.
Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap was a German-language philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a major member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical positivism. He is considered "one of the giants among twentieth-century philosophers."

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.
In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — © Rudolf Carnap
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.
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.
Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
Anything you can do, I can do meta
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.
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.
Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.
In logic, there are no morals.
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