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Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

— Rudolf Carnap The Unity of Science (1934)

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In science there are no 'depths'; there is surface everywhere.

Rudolf Carnap (1929)

A decisive difference between our method and Frege's consists in the fact that our concepts, in distinction to Frege's, are independent of the context.

Meaning and Necessity (1947)

Frege's pair of concepts (nominatum and sense) is compared with our pair (extension and intension). The two pairs coincide in ordinary (extensional) contexts, but not in oblique (nonextensional) contexts.

Meaning and Necessity (1947)

Science is a system of statements based on direct experience, and controlled by experimental verification. Verification in science is not, however, of single statements but of the entire system or a sub-system of such statements.

The Unity of Science (1934)

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)

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