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(2009) Constituting objectivity, Dordrecht, Springer.

Carnap's relativised a priori and ontology

Paolo Parrini

pp. 127-143

The paper reconstructs Carnap's epistemological and ontological ideas stressing the link between these ideas and the most general tenets of Logical Empiricism (negation of the Kantian theory of synthetic a priori judgments, linguistic theory of the a priori, influence of Poincaré's conventionalism, principle of verification, refusal of metaphysical absolutism). From this point of view it also discusses both the Carnap/Quine debate on analyticity and ontology and the difference between Carnap and the "young' Reichenbach on the nature of the relativised a priori.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9510-8_7

Full citation:

Parrini, P. (2009)., Carnap's relativised a priori and ontology, in M. Bitbol, P. Kerszberg & J. Petitot (eds.), Constituting objectivity, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 127-143.

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