Books, Brochures, and Chapters>Book:  Carnap, Rudolf (1937), Logic, The Language of Wisdom and Folly: Background Readings in Semantics, Retrieved on 2012-01-30
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    30 JAN 2012

     Philosophy Without Empiricism is Nonsense

    Logic is not concerned with human behavior in the same sense that physiology, psychology, and social sciences are concerned with it. These sciences formulate laws or universal statements which have as their subject matter human activities as processes in time. Logic, on the contrary, is concerned with relations between factual sentences (or thoughts). If logic ever discusses the truth of factual sentences it does so only conditionally, somewhat as follows: if such-and-such a sentence is true,...
    Folksonomies: empiricism
    Folksonomies: empiricism
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    Empirical science is the only thing capable of determining if a sentence is true.

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