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1 online resource (503 pages) : illustrations |
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Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities, 0303-8157 ; v. 89 |
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Polish analytical philosophy ; v. 6 |
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Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; v. 89. 0303-8157
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Polish analytical philosophy ; v. 6.
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| Contents |
THE LVOV-WARSAW SCHOOL: ITS CONTEMPORARY INHERITORS AND INVESTIGATORS IN POLAND AND ABROAD; PART I. THE SCHOOL: ITS ORIGINS AND SIGNIFICANCE; Why Polish Philosophy Does Not Exist; The Lvov-Warsaw School and Its Influence on Polish Philosophy of the Second Half of the 20th Century; PART II. OBJECTS AND PROPERTIES; An Elementary System of Ontology; Do We Need Complex Properties in Our Ontology?; Objects, Properties and Russell's Paradox; On The Notion of Identity; PART III. PROGNOSES, NORMS AND QUESTIONS; A Puzzle about Semantic Determinism: Lukasiewicz's "On Determinism" Years Later |
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Causality in Chaotic Environment: Does Strong Causality Break Down in Deterministic Chaos?Three Contributions to Logical Philosophy; Reducibility of Safe Questions to Sets of Atomic Yes-No Questions; PART IV. CATEGORIAL GRAMMAR; Languages with Variable-Binding Operators: Categorial Syntax and Combinatorial Semantics; On the Formalization of Classical Categorial Grammar; PART V. INTENTIONALITY, SENSE AND CONSEQUENCE; Retrieving Intentionality: A Legacy from the Brentano School; Logical and Methodological Assumptions of the Ajdukiewicz's and Kripke-Putnam's Views of Meaning |
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On Linguistic RelativismTarski's Analysis of Logical Consequence and Etchemendy's Criticism of Tarski's Modal Fallacy; PART VI. TRUTHS AND FALSEHOODS; Sempiternal Truth. The Bolzano-Twardowski-Lesniewski Axis; From the Act of Judging to the Sentence: The Truth-Bearer and the Objectivisation of Truth; What does "Truth in Virtue of Meaning" Really Explain?; Do We Need a Definition of Truth?; PART VII. RATIONALITY: ITS CRITERIA AND DEFINITION; Criteria of Rationality; On the Concept of Rationality |
| Summary |
"The influence of [Kazimierz] Twardowski on modern philosophy in Poland is all-pervasive. Twardowski instilled in his students a passion for clarity [. . .] and seriousness. He taught them to regard philosophy as a collaborative effort, a matter of disciplined discussion and argument, and he encouraged them to train themselves thoroughly in at least one extra-philosophical discipline and to work together with scientists from other fields, both inside Poland and internationally. This led above all [. . .] to collaborations with mathematicians, so that the Lvov school of philosophy would gradual |
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Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Lvov-Warsaw school of philosophy.
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Philosophy, Polish -- 20th century.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Lvov-Warsaw school of philosophy
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Philosophy, Polish
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Jadacki, Jacek Juliusz
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Paśniczek, Jacek
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| ISBN |
9781429456449 |
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1429456442 |
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9042020687 |
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9789042020689 |
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9789401203371 |
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9401203377 |
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