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Rudolf Carnap

Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) was a German-American philosopher and a central figure of logical empiricism, known for applying modern logic to the analysis of scientific language. His major works include The Logical Structure of the World (1928), The Logical Syntax of Language (1934), and Meaning and Necessity (1947), and he made influential contributions to verificationism, inductive logic and probability, and the semantics of modal logic.

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