Majid Davoody; Mehdi Nasrin
Volume 3, Issue 6 , February 2014, , Pages 13-36
Abstract
At the outset of the 20th century, the received formulation of empiricism, as it was endorsed in logical empiricism, began to sound problematic, in a way that the system seemed to be in need of some revisions and amendments. Carnap endeavored to fix the gaps by his proposals in his Logical Syntax of ...
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At the outset of the 20th century, the received formulation of empiricism, as it was endorsed in logical empiricism, began to sound problematic, in a way that the system seemed to be in need of some revisions and amendments. Carnap endeavored to fix the gaps by his proposals in his Logical Syntax of Language (1934/37). In spite of some lasting merits, the approach was not left totally uncontroversial; therefore in 1940s Carnap went to do some further revisions in his so called semantic period. In this paper, I will show why the failure of Carnap’s program even in the semantic period does not lead to the total destruction of empiricism.
