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Modern logic has been provided since its very inception in 1879 with a diagrammatic outlook: Frege’s two-dimensional symbolism in his Begriffsschrift. This was supposed to surpass specific limitations both of natural and of other constructed languages. However, it did not receive the attention paid to Frege’s purely logical innovations. This fact was partly due to the common opinion, informed by logicians...
The paper proposes a new reading of the Aufbau, one that contends that Carnap’s epistemological project is not, or not only, to identify the conditions under which a system of purely structural definite descriptions can attain objectivity. Rather, the project is more ambitious: to determine the conditions that allow the concomitant attainment of objectivity and understanding. As such, it can, and...
In this paper, I am zeroing in on Carnap's formal method of quasianalysis, arguing against two interpretations of it, offered by Nelson Goodman and Thomas Mormann. In order to overcome their inadequacy, I propose a diagrammatic reconstruction, which takes advantage of the fact that the concept of local sign is no longer ignored. This will give me the opportunity to show that Quine'scriticism of Carnap's...
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