Carnap’s epistemological critique of metaphysics
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Carnap’s epistemological critique of metaphysics
Many who take a dismissive attitude towards metaphysics trace their view back to Carnap’s ‘Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology’ (1950a). But the reason Carnap takes a dismissive attitude to metaphysics is a matter of controversy. I will argue that no reason is given in ‘Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology’, and this is because his reason for rejecting metaphysical debates was given in ‘Pseudo-Pro...
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عنوان ژورنال: Synthese
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0039-7857,1573-0964
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-017-1335-x