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SYNTHESE LIBRARY A SERIES OF MONOGRAPHS ON THE RECENT DEVELOPMENT OF SYMBOLIC LOGIC, SIGNIFICS, SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE, SOCIOLOGY OF SCIENCE AND OF KNOWLEDGE, STATISTICS OF LANGUAGE AND RELA TED FIELDS
Editors: B. H. KAZEMIER
I D. VUYSIE
LOGIC AND LANGUAGE STUDIES DEDICATED TO
PROFESSOR RUDOLF CARNAP ON THE OCCASION OF HIS SEVENTIETH BIRTHDAY
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.V.
Copyright 1962 by Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht Originally published by D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland in 1962 No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by print, photoprint, microfilm, or any other means without permission from the publisher ISBN 978-90-481-8319-7
ISBN 978-94-017-2111-0 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-2111-0
CONTENTS
Yehoshua Bar-Hillel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem A PREREQUISITE FOR RA TIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION
Abraham A. Fraenkel The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 6
EPISTEMOLOGY AND LOGIC
Paul Bernays Zurich ZUR ROLLE DER SPRACHE IN ERKENNTNISTHEORETISCHER
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HINSICHT
J0rgen J0rgensen University of Copenhagen (Knbenhavn) SOME REMARKS CONCERNING LANGUAGES, CALCULUSES,
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AND LOGIC
w. V. Quine
Harvard University
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CARNAP AND LOGICAL TRUTH
Evert W. Beth The University of Amsterdam 64
EXTENSION AND INTENSION
Henryk Mehlberg The University of Chicago THE PRESENT SITUATION IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF
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MA THEMA TI CS
Karl Menger Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
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A COUNTERPART OF OCCAM'S RAZOR IN PURE AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS ONTOLOGICAL USES
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Richard Montague University of California, Los Angeles and Berkeley TOWARDS A GENERAL THEORY OF COMPUTABILITY
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Carl G. Hempel Princeton University INDUCTIVE INCONSISTENCIES
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CONTENTS
Wolfgang Stegmiiller Universitiit MUflchen EINIGE BEITRAGE ZUM PROBLEM DER TELEOLOGIE UND DER ANALYSE VON SYSTEMEN MIT ZIELGERICHTETER ORGANISATION
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Karl DUrr Zurich BELEUCHTUNG VON ANWENDUNGEN DER LOGISTIK IN WERKEN VON RUDOLF CARNAP
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Arne Nress University of Oslo TYPOLOGY OF QUESTIONNAIRES ADOPTED TO THE STUDY OF EXPRESSIONS WITH CLOSEL Y RELA TED MEANINGS
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H. Tennessen University of California, Berkeley PERMISSIBLE AND IMPERMISSIBLE LOCUTIONS
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David Rynin University of California, Berkeley NON-COGNITIVE SYNONYMY AND THE DEFINABILITY OF 'GOOD'
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Charles Morris University of Florida ON THE HISTORY OF THE INTERNATIONAL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF UNIFIED SCIENCE
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YEHOSHUA BAR-HILLEL
A PREREQUISITE FOR RATIONAL PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION
Communication between philosophers has been deteriorating during the last decades. Logical empiricists and British linguistic philosophers have been branding large parts of the output of their speculative colleagues as 'nonsense' and 'literally unintelligible'. Speculative metaphysicians, after having recovered from the first shock, either just disregard these declarations, or else declare, on their part, that the standards of intelligibility employed by the critics are arbitrary. The breakdown of communication is not always as radical as the situation ju
