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Ideas of Otto Neurath, by Text

[Austrian, 1882 - 1945, Born in Vienna. At the University of Vienna. Shot dead by one of his students.]

1930 works
p.95 Philosophy is not separate from or above empirical science
1932 Protocol Sentences
p.128 If we are rebuilding our ship at sea, we should jettison some cargo [Boolos]
p.177 We must always rebuild our ship on the open sea; we can't reconstruct it properly in dry-dock