The logical structure of the world

Author: Rudolf Carnap
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Publish Date: 1999-04-01
Features: This book employs the logical analysis methods initiated by Frege and Russell, analyzing and reducing all concepts in every scientific field to the foundation of direct experience. Using the concept of "similarity memory of original experience" as a fundamental relationship, it progressively defines all other concepts, reconstructing the concepts of various scientific fields in a hierarchical and graded manner, known as "rational reconstruction." Carnap believed that such a conceptual construction system not only reveals the logical order of concepts but also reflects the order of knowledge. At the same time, this construction serves as a powerful tool to expel all metaphysical concepts and propositions that cannot be reduced to an experiential foundation, i.e., those that cannot be constructed, from philosophy.