Comparative Table: Carnap and Grice on 'logical construction'

-------------------- RUSSELL --------------

introduces 'logical construction' in his
talks on Atomism:

One very important heuristic maxim ... is a form of Occam's Razor

-----Whenever possible, substitute
---- constructions out of known entities for
-----inferences to unknown entities(1924:160)

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CARNAP

applies
'logical construction'
to matter in
Logische Aufbau der Welt.

---- ----------------------- In 1941
---------------------------------------- Grice borrows "the logical
---------------------------------------- construction theory" from
---------------------------------------- Broad (who knew Russell
---------------------------------------- at Cambridge) and applies
---------------------------------------- it to the problem of the
------------------------------------------------- self.
- - - "Personal Identity" (Mind)


------------------- DIVERGENCES IN APPROACH


Carnap --

reductionist interpretation ----------------- reductionist interpretation
------------------------------------------------ rejected by Grice 1989:Strand 4

-- pragmatist interepetation ------------------- reductive, not reductionist.