Logical investigations can henceforth be liberated from any...

Logical investigations can henceforth be liberated from any assumption or question of correctness or incorrectness, and alternative logics and languages freely pursued. Carnap suggests that this will lead to the solution of many troubling philosophical problems, including problems in the foundations of mathematics.

These disputes can henceforth be seen simply as involving alternative proposals for the form of a language, rather than the substantive disagreements about the nature or forms of objects or entities that they might otherwise appear to be.

The syntactical conception of language thereby gave Carnap a powerful new suggestion for resolving philosophical disagreements by treating them as resulting from disagreements about conventional language forms.[^223] At the same time, though, the conception of logic as syntax also makes possible an account of the origin of philosophical and metaphysical error and confusion that would prove decisive for Carnap’s ongoing critique of…