Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1922

Pencil notes on the back of Rudolf Carnap, “Science and Analysis of Language,” reprinted for the members of the fifth International Congress for the Unity of Science, Cambridge, Mass., 1939, from the Journal of Unified Science (Erkenntnis) Vol. 9, pp. 221-226

Carnap

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I have often asserted —

Mathematics has nothing in it but what can be reduced to the knowledge of more and less.

It is all built on the idea of More and Less.

(a + b)   (a – b) (a – b)   (a + b)

^>  = greater than <<£  = more than ~  = Not > Nor <

Write a paper on “Unity of Science” beginning with meaning and quality or value.

To get unity we must synthesize. The only thing we can synthesize is experience. This itself is at least a verbal synthesis. But the elements of this verbal synthesis in the sound, “Experience” is only aggregative and implicit. It is the business of science, to make the elements entering into the synthesis explicit — in other words, put them into