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How Empirical is Contemporary Logical Empiricism?

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Language in Focus: Foundations, Methods and Systems

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One of Yehoshua Bar-Hillel’s most admirable virtues was his ability to discern, and readiness to remark on, the nakedness of a naked emperor even when he himself had previously been one of the crowd that thought the emperor decently clad. My tribute to him will take the form of an attempt at an exercise of just this kind. If my own present venture into the genre is unsuccessful, I shall at least have given due credit for his successes to Yehoshua.

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  1. R. Carnap, The Logical Syntax of Language, Routledge & Kegan Paul. London, 1937, p. 334ff. Cf. also pp. 230–1.

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  1. The Queen’s College, Oxford, UK

    L. Jonathan Cohen

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  1. Tel-Aviv University, Israel

    Asa Kasher

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Cohen, L.J. (1976). How Empirical is Contemporary Logical Empiricism?. In: Kasher, A. (eds) Language in Focus: Foundations, Methods and Systems. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 43. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1876-0_16

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