Quote: radical reductionism: every meaningful statement is translatable into a predicate about immediate experience

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What, in other words, is the nature of … The most naive view of the relation is … to be translatable into a statement (true or … Thus Locke and Hume held that every idea … [p. 39] Radical reductionism … set itself the task of specifying a sense-datum … Carnap embarked on this project in the Aufbau. … In effect, [Carnap's language] included the whole language of … Carnap's starting point is very parsimonious, however, in … of modern logic with much ingenuity, Carnap succeeds … would not have dreamed were definable on so …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: Carnap in Aufau used mathematics and a parsimonious experiential language to define important additional sensory concepts

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