Excerpts from signs, language and behavior

pp. 149-189

in: Donald Favareau, Essential readings in biosemiotics, Berlin, Springer, 2009

Abstract

In an attempt to codify the tenets of logical positivism in a manifesto of the Vienna Circle, mathematician Hans Hahn (1879–1934), political economist Otto Neurath (1882–1945) and philosopher Rudolf Carnap (1891–1970) proclaimed "We have characterised the scientific world-conception essentially by two features: