通过语言的逻辑分析清除形而上学

简介

Carnap published the essay in 1932 in Erkenntnis, the journal of the Vienna Circle. Modern logic, he argues, shows metaphysical sentences to be meaningless: either they contain words without criteria of application, such as “principle” or “God” in their metaphysical use, or they combine meaningful words in ways that violate logical syntax. His main example is a series of sentences from Heidegger’s inaugural lecture. Metaphysics, Carnap suggests, expresses an attitude towards life, as art does – metaphysicians are musicians without musical ability. The essay became the classic statement of the logical empiricist critique of metaphysics and a symbol of the later divide between “analytic” and “continental” philosophy.

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