Carnap, Wittgenstein e o problema da metafísica

The article aims, first, to characterize the program of eliminating metaphysics proposed by Rudolf Carnap in the article “The elimination of metaphysics through logical analysis of language” and to stress the parallel between the author’s conclusions and those presented by Moritz Schlick in earlier texts. Secondly, we intend to show that the affiliation of Carnap to Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is based on a sui generis understanding of the very notion of nonsense and the claim that the alleged metaphysical propositions are meaningless. This understanding, however, is based on the appropriation of the verificationism that Wittgenstein himself proposed in the early 1930s.