Interesting article on Rudolph Carnap, who I was not familiar with before (rather embarrassingly, having studied philosophy at university). He was a member of the Vienna Circle and an exponent of logical positivism, developing Wittgenstein's notion of a 'verification principle', where by meaning is dependent on the ways we determine the truth of falsity of a claim. The claim 'there is a God', for instance, is deducible neither from experience nor analytical thinking. It is not false, but meaningless. His 1928 book The Structure of the World was extremely influential:
http://www.philosophypress.co.uk/?p=1121
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