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13940 | All linguistic forms in science are merely judged by their efficiency as instruments [Carnap] |
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. | |
From: Rudolph Carnap (Empiricism, Semantics and Ontology [1950], 5) |