Mark Linsenmayer reads the 1905 article, which serves to supplement our Frege and Russell episodes. For Frege, a word can have both a meaning (its sense) and a denotation (its referent). So "Clark Kent" and "Superman" have the same referent, but different senses. But since actually, Superman is a fictional character, technically speaking, neither of those terms has a Continue Reading …
Topic for #67: Carnap on Logic and Science
On 11/15/12 we recorded a discussion of Rudolph Carnap's The Logical Structure of the World (1928), often referred to as "the Aufbau," because it sounds cool, and the German title is Der Logische Aufbau der Welt. Listen to the episode. To get a good sense of Carnap's project, we read pages 1-136, plus the subsequent chapter summaries: pages 166-171, 240-243, 298-300. The Continue Reading …