The Philosophy of Rudolf Carnap
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Entities A particular source of opposition to Carnap's semantic methods arises from the use of abstract entities such as classes, properties, and numbers, many philosphers feeling that such use depends upon demonstration that these abstract entities "do actually exist". Carnap regarded such questions as metaphysical and hence senseless, but they were raised by anti-metaphysical empiricists. Carnap's paper "Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology" ([Carnap50] ) describes his position in repect of abstract objects. It introduces the distinction between internal and external ontological questions.
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