By Béla Juhos (auth.)
It was once because of having identified Juhos in my view over a long time that I turned accustomed to his concept. I met him and Viktor Kraft in Vienna quickly after the warfare and during their acquaintance I first got here into touch with the culture of the Vienna Circle. To their dialog .too lowe a lot as regards the explanation of my very own perspectives, no matter if finally those took particularly a unique flip in lots of necessities. At this element my gratitude is going to begin with to Mrs. Lia J uhos for the gen erous aid she has given me and the editors of the Vienna Circle assortment in picking out the contents of this quantity. subsequent, we owe a unique debt to Dr. Paul Foulkes for his fantastic translation of the textual content. ultimately, I desire to thank Dr. Veit Pittioni for his consistent suggestions. As Juhos' final scholar, he was once thoro).lghly conversant in his supervisor's mode of inspiration and has considerably furthered the meeting and execution of this book.
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This infinite regress can be cut short only if, with Zilsel and the view of the Vienna Circle to date, we assume that 'real' protocol propositions, in contrast with merely conceivable ones - although merely 'conceivable protocol propositions' are in my view a non-concept, the result of a nonsensical conceptual construction -, somehow picture the 'unspeakable' or 'given' and their truth 'shows' itself in the very fact of our understanding them: they are distinguished by means of an 'unspeakable experience' .
Testing a proposition of the system here occurs by deriving from it concrete propositions which are then compared with propositions obtained directly (that is, protocol propositions within the system language). Thus we can here say that in verifying propositions of the system we compare them directly with protocol propositions, that is with other propositions of the system. Only we must not forget that one of these was always obtained by derivation and the other directly (by reactions). , p. 222, and in the example p.
143, 177. 13 Cf. ', E2 (1931) p. 432. 14 Cf. Camap, 'Ober Protokollsiitze', E3 (1932/33) p. 215. 15 Camap, 'Erwiderungauf die Aufsiitze von E. Zilsel und K. Dunckert', E3 (1932/33) p. 177. 16 Zilsel, 'Bemerkungen zur Wissenschaftslogik', E3 (1932/33) p. 143. II 12 CHAPTER III EMPIRICISM AND PHYSICALISM* The Physicalists' theory of truth, as formulated byCarnap and Neurath, has been expounded by Dr. Hempel l in Analysis (vol. 2, no. 4). Within the Viennese Circle Physicalism has led to a division of opinion, which mainly finds its expression2 in the fact that the Physicalists are reproached by their opponents with having broken with the principles of Empiricism.