Methodical neutralism
The methodological neutralism is a philosopher of science Rudolf Carnap and firm position of which is not to be associated with a commitment to a philosophical or metaphysical position, the choice of an empirical-scientific language.
This position plays an important role, especially in Carnap's efforts - together with Otto Neurath - to combine the various empirical sciences into a unified science that is expressed in a universal language. According to Carnap, the choice of the universal language is free insofar as only the exact (syntactic) rules of the language structure have to be specified. No ontological (metaphysical) statements should be associated with the choice of language .
literature
- R. Carnap: The logical syntax of language (Vienna / New York: 1968), p. 45
swell
- ↑ P. Prechtl (ed.): Basic concepts of analytic philosophy .