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[Reply to Moritz Schlick’s ‘On the Foundation of Knowledge’ (1979b) and Thilo Vogel’s ‘Bemerkungen zur Aussagentheorie des radikalen Physikalismus’ (1934). Reference will also be made to Fred Bon’s ‘Der Gegenstand der Psychologie’ (1934).
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Goethe’s Der west-ostliche Divan, a collection of poems written in 1814–1815. The ‘East-West’ of the title reflects Goethe’s interest in the enrichment of Western civilization by Arab culture; ‘Divan\ meaning collection, was taken from the fourteenth century Persian poet Hafiz (the name, in Persian, meaning one who knows the Koran by heart) one of whose poems is the source of the Divan poem that ON probably has in mind, namely ’Seelige Sehnsucht’, which ends:
Und so lang du das nicht hast, Dieses: Stirb und werde! Bist du nur ein triiber Gast Auf der dunklen Erde.
And until you have grasped this - ’Die and be transformed!’ - you will be nothing but a sorry guest on the sombre earth.)
Translation taken from The Penguin Book of German Verse. Edited by Leonard Forster. Baltimore: Penguin, 1961. p. 227. - Ed.]
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Neurath, O. (1983). Radical Physicalism and the ‘Real World’. In: Cohen, R.S., Neurath, M. (eds) Philosophical Papers 1913–1946. Vienna Circle Collection, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6995-7_8
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