Elementární báze poznání: protokolární věty

Abstract

The paper deals with protocol sentences as a basis for elementary knowledge of our world. There is a striking difference between two approaches to the protocol sentences: from Carnap’s point of view, protocol sentences are non-revisable basic sentences, so they must be accepted as a convention without possibility of falsification. While from Neurath’s point of view, protocol sentences are not basis of our knowledge for they are still open to revisions. This paper tries to articulate only selected aspects of these differences and is not intended to offer complex view to the problem of protocol sentences.