Ep. 294: Quine on Science vs. Epistemology (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Carnap Project, Reduction Forms, Isn't Going to Work
Carnap is trying to imagine a kind of fictitious history in which we acquire physicalist discourse by building it up out of reduction forms. Almost no sentences actually have their own experiential implications, he says. The empirical meanings of typical statements about the external world are 'ineffable'
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