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193Carnap's logical structure of the worldPhilosophy Compass 4 (6): 951-961. 2009.This article aims to give an overview of Carnap's 1928 book Logical Structure of the World or Aufbau and the most influential interpretations of its significance. After giving an outline of the book in Section 2 , I turn to the first sustained interpretations of the book offered by Goodman and Quine in Section 3 . Section 4 explains how this empirical reductionist interpretation was largely displaced by its main competitor. This is the line of interpretation offered by Friedman and Richardson wh…Read more
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45Torsten Wilholt, Zahl und Wirklichkeit: Eine philosophische Untersuchung über die Anwendbarkeit der Mathematik [Number and Reality: A Philosophical Investigation of the Applicability of Mathematics]. Paderborn: Mentis, 2004. Pp. 309. ISBN 3-89785-368-X (review)Philosophia Mathematica 13 (3): 329-337. 2005.
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