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Quotes from Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology — Rudolf Carnap

1891–1970 Germany

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If someone wishes to speak in his language about a new kind of entities, he has to introduce a system of new ways of speaking, subject to new rules; we shall call this procedure the construction of a linguistic framework for the new entities in question.

Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology (1950)

After the new forms are introduced into the language, it is possible to formulate with their help internal questions and possible answers to them. A question of this kind may be either empirical or logical; accordingly a true answer is either factually true or analytic.

Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology (1950)

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