I received your letter and your paper “Pragmatism and Metaphysics”BMorris, Charles W.!1934@„Pragmatism and Metaphysics“, Philosophical Review 43, 1934, 549-564. I have read the paper with great interest. I think it will be a good basis for our intended discussions. If your Metaphysics is based upon experiences and can be checked by experiences it does of course not belong to that kind of Metaphysics which we reject as nonsensical. We would perhaps prefer to call it a part of science, namely that part which contains the most general or the most fundamental statements of science, instead of Metaphysics. But this question is a mere terminological one and therefore of secondary importance. – When I write my Answer to LewisPLewis, Clarence Irving, 1883–1964, am. Philosoph I shall also refer to your paper.
The printing of the indexes of my “Syntax”B1934@Logische Syntax der Sprache, Wien, 1934 have been somewhat delayed. Thus the book will only appear in 2 or 3 weeks.
About the Vienna friends I will write you a little later on. Also about our summer plans. Can you say approximately, to about which altitude your wifePMorris, Trude, verh. mit Charles W. Morris is able to go?
Very sincerely
Brief, msl., 1 Seite, CM (Dsl. RC 029-04-18); Briefkopf: gestempelt Prof. Dr. Rudolf Carnap / Prag XVII. / N. Motol, Pod Homolkou 146, msl. May, 31, 1934.
