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 (kär′näp′, -năp′), Rudolf 1891-1970.
German-born American philosopher whose antimetaphysical views, set forth in such works as The Logical Structure of the World (1928) and The Logical Foundations of Probability (1950), were central to the development of logical positivism.
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Carnap

(ˈkɑːnæp)
n
(Biography) Rudolf. 1891–1970, US logical positivist philosopher, born in Germany: attempted to construct a formal language for the empirical sciences that would eliminate ambiguity
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It is well known that Rudolf Carnap's original system of inductive logic failed to provide an adequate account of analogical reasoning.
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David Chalmers' latest book, Constructing the World (CS), is intentionally misnamed in tribute to Rudolf Carnap. Chalmers writes: "The title should be heard as self-consciously absurd.
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