Rudolf Carnap famous quotes

05-20-2025

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

#Philosophy #Confusion #Lasts
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

#Science #Direct
Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.
-- Rudolf Carnap

#Tolerance #Form #Cautious
Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.
-- Rudolf Carnap

#Musical #Musician #Without Music
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.
-- Rudolf Carnap

#Self #Expression #Class
In logic, there are no morals.
-- Rudolf Carnap

#Logic #Moral #Relatable
In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.
-- Rudolf Carnap

#Depth #Surface
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.
-- Rudolf Carnap

#Bridges #Division #Might
Anything you can do, I can do meta
-- Rudolf Carnap

#Can Do #I Can
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.
-- Rudolf Carnap

#Order #Facts #Lows

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