Top 10 Quotes by Rudolf Carnap

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

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

Rudolf Carnap

Philosophy, Science, Confusion

Rudolf Carnap (2013). “The Unity of Science”, p.12, Routledge

Anything you can do, I can do meta

Rudolf Carnap

Can Do, I Can

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

Rudolf Carnap

Depth, Surface

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.

Rudolf Carnap

Science, Scientific Method, Accounts

Rudolf Carnap (2013). “The Unity of Science”, p.24, Routledge

In logic, there are no morals.

Rudolf Carnap

Moral, Logic, Relatable

Rudolf Carnap (2014). “Logical Syntax of Language”, p.52, Routledge

Metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability.

Rudolf Carnap

Musical Ability, Musician, Without Music

It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions.

Rudolf Carnap

Order, Facts, Lows

If one is interested in the relations between fields which, according to customary academic divisions, belong to different departments, then he will not be welcomed as a builder of bridges, as he might have expected, but will rather be regarded by both sides as an outsider and troublesome intruder.

Rudolf Carnap

Bridges, Different, Division

Let us be cautious in making assertions and critical in examining them, but tolerant in permitting linguistic forms.

Rudolf Carnap

Tolerance, Examination, Form

The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The self does not belong to the expression of the basic experience, but is constructed only on a very high level.

Rudolf Carnap

Self, Expression, Class

Rudolf Carnap, Rolf A. George (1969). “The Logical Structure of the World: And, Pseudoproblems in Philosophy”, p.299, Open Court Publishing