“Philosophy is not a system of propositions, and not a science.”
Source: Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre, 1925, p. 157 ; As cited in: Thomas Uebel (2012). Empiricism at the Crossroads: The Vienna Circle's Protocol-Sentence. p. 78
“Philosophy… is that activity by which the meaning of propositions is established or discovered. Philosophy elucidates propositions, science verifies them. In the later we are concerned with the truth of statements, but in the former with what they actually mean.”
Source: Allgemeine Erkenntnislehre, 1925, p. 157 ; As cited in: Uebel (2012:78)
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