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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Rudolf Carnap

Born: May 18, 1891
Died: September 14, 1970 (aged 79)
Bio: Rudolf Carnap was a German-born philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a major member of the Vienna Circle and an advocate of logical positivism.
Known for:
- The Logical Syntax of Language (1937)
- Meaning and Necessity (1947)
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