试论卡尔纳普的真理标准

Comments on Carnap's Criterion of Truth

卡尔纳普主张从哲学中清除形而上学。他拒斥行而上学,对综合命题提出了确证代替证实的标准,后来走向概率研究,为现代归纳逻辑发展开辟了新方向;对于分析命题则从句法分析到语义分析,为语言哲学和分析哲学作出了贡献。然而他主张的物理主义却并未成为现实。

Carnap believed that metaphysics should be eliminated from philosophy, and considered confirmation rather than verification as the criterion of synthetic proposition. Then he turned to probability research, which developed a new field for modern inductive logic. As for analytic proposition, he turned from syntactical analysis to semantic research. However, the physicalism he advocated has never become a reality.