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Name:
Rudolf Carnap
Dates:
Born: May 18, 1891, in Ronsdorf, Germany
Died: September 14, 1970, at Santa Monica, California
Biography:
Rudolf Carnap was a German philosopher who fled to America in 1935 because of
the growing power of the Nazis. He was a leading developer of logical positivism, and
argued that descriptions of reality can only be regarded as meaningful if they are
derived from experience. Because of this, he also argued for eliminating the pursuit
of metaphysics as a waste of time.
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