
PREMIUM-Episode 67: Carnap on Logic and Science
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Complexity of Relationships
The idea behind this complex things made out of basic things talk is something like, look, if we're going to systematically describe the relations between two kinds of statement, just as a methodological premise. But that's just a way coming up with a rigorous theory of something is you have to, for the narrative purposes of the theory, take one thing to be basic. Right? And he takes pains to say that what he's not doing is composition into holes, for instance. That's where he gets in to talk about what does he call a logical complex. Yes.
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