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Episode 8: Wittgenstein’s Tractatus (and Carnap): What Can We Legitimately Talk About?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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The Relationship Between Carnap and Verifiability in Philosophy

The Vienna Circle of Logical Positivists really took the Tractotists. And so if you say, there's a God and you can't tell me which observations that's supposed to give rise to you, then it's meaningless. If it doesn't have a verification either direct or possible indirect, it's a meaningless concept. But I totally agree with you, Seth. See, I think Vickin Stein knows less like that than then Carnap because there's a lot of philosophical beauty.

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