A decisive difference between our method and Frege's consists in the fact that our concepts, in distinction to Frege's, are independent of the context. (Rudolf Carnap)

A decisive difference between our method and Frege's consists in the fact that our concepts, in distinction to Frege's, are independent of the context.

Rudolf Carnap

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