Rudolf Carnap (1937) cited in: Irving J. Lee (1967) The Language of Wisdom and Folly: Background Readings in Semantics. International Society for General Semantics, p. 44
“Leibniz’s theory on the subject as substantia ideans in the sense of a causative agent of decision and acts stands much closer to a materialist interpretation of history than does a philosophy which reduces the thinking subject to the role of subsuming protocol sentences under general propositions and deducing other sentences from them.”
Source: "The Latest Attack on Metaphysics" (1937), p. 149.
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Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), p. 538

But generally the positivistic scheme taken from mathematical logic is too narrow in a description of nature which necessarily uses words and concepts that are only vaguely defined.
Physics and Philosophy (1958)

Source: Kritik der zynischen Vernunft [Critique of Cynical Reason] (1983), p. xxvii