Word: carnap
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Dr. Rudolf Carnap, 79, one of the 20th century's most influential philosophers; of peritonitis; in Santa Monica, Calif. A member of the so-called "Vienna Circle" of philosophers and mathematicians that flourished during the late '20s and early '30s, Carnap was a founder of the school of thought known as logical positivism. The traditional areas of philosophy, such as metaphysics, ethics and aesthetics, he dismissed as "meaningless" because their statements could not be empirically verified, and were based on "emotional needs, not on intellectual concepts...