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What according to carnap is wrong with a metaphysician's claim that "the nothing nothings" and Descartes' "cogito, ergo sum"? Do these mistakes suffice for eliminating metaphysics from meaningful discourses?

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In a 1929 lecture Martin Heidegger argued that the following claim is true Nothing nothings In German Das Nichts nichtet Years later Rudolph Carnap ridiculed this statement as the worst sort of meanin View the full answer


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