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VIENNA CIRCLE COLLECTION

Editorial Committee HENK

L.

University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

MULDER,

ROBERT

S.

COHEN,

Boston University, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

BRIAN McGUINNESS,

The Queen's College, Oxford, England

Editorial Advisory Board ALFRED J. AYER,

t Y.

BAR-HILLEL,

ALBERT E. BLUMBERG,

The Hebrew Universitv, Jerusalem, Israel

Rutgers University, New Brunswick, N.J., U.S.A.

HASKELL B. CCRRY. HERBERT FEIGL,

New College, Oxford. England

Pennsylvania State University, Pa., U.S.A.

University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minn., U.S.A.

ERWIT\ N. HIEBERT,

Harvard University, Camhridge, Mass., U.S.A.

JAAKKO HIC\iTlKKA,

Academy of Finland, Helsinki, Finland

t VIKTOR KRAFT,

KARL ME:-':GER,

Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, /11., U.S.A.

GABRIEL NlCIIELMAI\:S.

University of Leyden, Leyden, The Netherlands

AC\iTHONY M. QUINTON,

J. F.

STAAL,

Vienna, Austria

New College, Oxford, England

University of California, Berkeley, Calif, U.S.A.

VOLUME

8

EDITOR: BRIAN McGUINNESS

FRIEDRICH WAISMANN (1896-1959)

FRIEDRICH WAISMANN

PHILOSOPHICAL PAPERS Edited by BRIAN McGUINNESS

With an Introduction by ANTHONY QUINTON

D. REIDEL PUBLISHING COMPANY DORDRECHT -HOLLAND I BOSTON-U .S.A.

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Waismann, Friedrich. Philosophical papers. (Vienna circle collection) 'Bibliography of works by Friedrich Waismann': p. Includes index. CONTENTS: Editor's note. - The nature of the axiom of reducibility. - A logical analysis of the concept of probability [etc.] I. Philosophy-Collected works. I. Title. II. Series. B1669.W41 1976 76-41280 100 e-ISBN-13: 978-94-010-1144-0 ISBN-13: 978-90-277-0713-0 DOl: 10.1007/978-94-010-1144-0

Chapters I, /I, III. V, VI, and /III/ translated/rom the German h.l' Hans Kaal Chapter IV translated from the Dutch h.l' Arnold Burm.\ยท and Philippe I'an Par.l's.

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CONTENTS

Introduction by Anthony Quinton Editor's Note

IX XXI

I.

The Nature of the Axiom of Reducibility (1928)

II.

A Logical Analysis of the Concept of Probability (1930)

III.

The Concept of Identity (1936)

22

IV.

Moritz Schlick's Significance for Philosophy (1936)

30

V.

Hypotheses (before 1936?)

38

VI.

Is Logic a Deductive Theory? (1938)

60

VII.

The Relevance of Psychology to Logic (1938)

68

VIII. What is Logical Analysis? (1939)

4

81

IX.

Fiction (1950)

104

X.

A Note on