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Rudolf Carnap
Rudolf Carnap Summary
Rudolf Carnap was a German-born American philosopher of logical positivism. He made important contributions to logic, the analysis of language, the theory of probability, and the philosophy of science. From 1910 to 1914 Carnap studied mathematics, physics, and philosophy at the Universities of Jena
Ludwig Wittgenstein
Ludwig Wittgenstein Summary
Ludwig Wittgenstein was an Austrian-born British philosopher, regarded by many as the greatest philosopher of the 20th century. Wittgenstein’s two major works, Logisch-philosophische Abhandlung (1921; Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922) and Philosophische Untersuchungen (published posthumously in
Saul Kripke
Saul Kripke Summary
Saul Kripke was an American logician and philosopher who from the 1960s was one of the most powerful and influential thinkers in contemporary analytic (Anglophone) philosophy. Kripke began his important work on the semantics of modal logic (the logic of modal notions such as necessity and