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| | Hochberg on Bergmann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23) |
 | | Gustav Bergmann's remarkable intellectual journey, beginning as one of the youngest members of the Vienna Circle, and ending, in Hector Castañeda's judgment, as "the foremost ontologist of the decade," focused on three metaphysical issues that he continuously discussed for thirty years: the problems of individuation, of universals, and of intentionality. |
 | | Bergmann's turn to metaphysics began with his 1947 paper "Russell on Particulars," though he had long insisted that his later concerns with the metaphysics of intentionality, expressed in a 1955 paper on intentionality, are already present in two criticisms of Carnap's semantics published in 1944 and 1945. |
 | | But a careful reading of the earlier papers, which Carnap (in a letter to Bergmann in the Bergmann archives at the University of Iowa Library) found to be "mostly Chinese," show that Bergmann, in 1944 and 1945, is writing as an extreme early Carnapian positivist. |
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