Meh. The Vienna Circle were a bunch of ideologues who used the insights of smart people that they didn't understand to club their enemies over the head. Just like modern-day libertarians appealing to Nietszche. Carnap's "critique" of Heidegger wouldn't pass a Philosophy 101 class. He missed the point entirely.
--- On Sat, 8/22/09, Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
> Yes he was. He was also a metaphysical idealist and
> a theist, who presented his own version of the ontological
> argument, using modal logic. It is curious fact that
> he
> was ever a member of the Vienna Circle, when
> he held views diametrically opposed to those
> held by the rest of the Circle, but he shared
> their interest in mathematical logic and its
> philosophical implications
>
> Jim Farmelant
>
> >
> > --- On Sun, 7/26/09, ravi <ravi at platosbeard.org>
> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Here is the problem with the deep platonism
> of this
> > > idea. Crudely put
> > > > it was destroyed by Goedel's dual theorems
> on
> > > consistancy and
> > > > completeness.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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