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Full Idea
The acceptance or rejection of abstract (or any other) linguistic forms in any branch of science will finally be decided by their efficiency as instruments.
Gist of Idea
All linguistic forms in science are merely judged by their efficiency as instruments
Source
Rudolph Carnap (Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology [1950], 5)
Book Ref
Carnap,Rudolph: 'Meaning and Necessity (2nd ed)' [Chicago 1988], p.221