Quotes About Carnap

One has to read Heidegger in the original to see what a swindler he was," said Popper. His philosophy was "empty verbiage put together in statements which are absolutely empty."19 On this even Carnap—not Popper's biggest fan—concurred.

It was Rudolf Carnap's dream for the last three decades of his life to show that science proceeds by a formal syntactic method; today no one to my knowledge holds out any hope for that project.