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In order to determine whether or not one sentence is a consequence of another, no reference need be made to the meaning of the sentences. The mere statement of the truth-values is certainly too little; but the statement of the meaning is, on the other hand, too much. It is sufficient that the syntactical design of the sentences be given.

— Rudolf Carnap Logical Syntax of Language (1934)

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

The Unity of Science (1934)

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

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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.

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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.

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