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Rational reconstruction as elucidation? Carnap in the early protocol sentence debate

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Work on this paper was supported by an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh. I thank the Archive of Scientific Philosophy, Hillman Library, University of Pittsburgh for permission to quote materials in their care, and the curator, Gerald Heverley, for his transcription of the diary passages. I am particularly grateful to Michael Friedman for his comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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Uebel, T.E. Rational reconstruction as elucidation? Carnap in the early protocol sentence debate. Synthese 93, 107–140 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00869423

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