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Rudolf Carnap’s diaries: from the German Youth Movement to the Vienna Circle

Rudolf Carnap: Tagebücher. Band 1: 1908–1919, Band 2: 1920–1935, edited by Christian Damböck. Hamburg: Meiner, 2022, e-books open access, (https://doi.org/10.48666/808482 and https://doi.org/10.48666/808483)

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Uebel, T. Rudolf Carnap’s diaries: from the German Youth Movement to the Vienna Circle. Metascience 32, 125–131 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11016-022-00835-4

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