carnap
Speech parts
1. carnap - Verb
2. Carnap - Proper noun
Meaning
carnap (third-person singular simple present carnaps, present participle carnapping or carnaping, simple past and past participle carnapped or carnaped)
(Philippines) To steal a motor vehicle.
Carnap (plural Carnaps)
A surname.
Examples
Carnap made a detailed analysis of Heidegger's statement, "Nothing nihilates,” in order to show that it is purely verbal, devoid of empirical meaning. (Incidentally, this is the only sentence from existentialist philosophy the majority of contemporary positivists appear familiar with.)
Carnap (1963) later expressed some irritation about his time at Chicago, where he and Charles W. Morris were the only members of the department committed to the primacy of science and logic.
Carnap, R. An introduction to the Philosophy of Science Experimental tests of general relativity have confirmed that non-Euclidean geometries provide a better model for the shape of space.
Carnap stated: Philosophy is to be replaced by the logic of science – that is to say, by the logical analysis of the concepts and sentences of the sciences, for the logic of science is nothing other than the logical syntax of the language of science.
Carnap, R, An introduction to the philosophy of science, p. 148 Since Euclidean geometry is simpler than non-Euclidean geometry, he assumed the former would always be used to describe the 'true' geometry of the world.
Carnap elaborated and extended the concept of logical syntax proposed by Wittgenstein in the Tractatus (Section 3.325).