Carnap

American  

[kahr-nap] / ˈkɑr næp /

noun

1. Rudolf P., 1891–1970, U.S. philosopher, born in Germany.

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Carnap British  

/ ˈkɑːnæp /

noun

1. Rudolf. 1891–1970, US logical positivist philosopher, born in Germany: attempted to construct a formal language for the empirical sciences that would eliminate ambiguity

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Example Sentences

Schlick and Hahn and Carnap proclaimed, instead, that all our beliefs should be testable and verified, a philosophical theory that became known as “logical positivism.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2018

The central members of the Vienna Circle were physicist and philosopher Moritz Schlick, mathematician and philosopher Hans Hahn, philosopher Rudolf Carnap, and social scientist and philosopher Otto Neurath.

From Washington Post • Jan. 5, 2018

For a woman of Professor Marcus’s generation to elbow her way into the field, then dominated by titans like Willard Van Orman Quine, Rudolf Carnap and Kurt Gödel, was almost unheard of.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2012

Working independently in the mid-1940s, both Professor Marcus and Carnap, who taught at the University of Chicago, devised such frameworks by combining classical quantified logic and modal logic.

From New York Times • Mar. 13, 2012