What was the 1929 Vienna Circle manifesto that Rudolf Carnap helped write?

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The 1929 manifesto that Rudolf Carnap helped write is titled Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung: Der Wiener Kreis (English: "Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle").12

Authored by Carnap, Hans Hahn, and Otto Neurath—with assistance from Friedrich Waismann and Herbert Feigl—the document served as a formal declaration of the Vienna Circle's intentions and philosophical outlook. It functioned as a statement of independence from traditional philosophy, aiming to establish a "scientific world view" by applying the precision and rigor of the exact sciences to philosophical inquiry. The manifesto promoted the logical positivism movement, emphasizing the verifiability principle and the unity of science, while rejecting traditional metaphysics as meaningless.1234