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(1991) Erkenntnis orientated, Dordrecht, Springer.
Great philosophical works are neither descriptions nor evaluations, but rather interpretations of "the world", or, to be more precise, of the objects of a more or less extended parcel of our thought. Hermeneutic products such as philosophical systems are neither true nor false, neither valid nor invalid in a straightforward sense. It would be less misleading to apply to them such categories as "rich" and "profound", or "poor" and "trivial", in a way similar (thought not identical, of course) to the application of these categories to a work of art.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-011-3490-3_14
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Moulines, C. U. (1991)., Making sense of Carnap's "Aufbau", in W. Spohn (ed.), Erkenntnis orientated, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 263-286.