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18Kazimierz Twardowski and the Development of Philosophy of Science in PolandVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 17 173-182. 2014.In 1930 Otto Neurath asked Alfred Tarski for information about Polish philosophers of science and their work. Tarski answered on 24 April, 1930, saying in one of the first sentences that
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2Scepticism and logicHistory of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 1. 1998.This paper offers a logical analysis of scepticism. It is shown that dogmatism, academism and scepticism as characterized by Sextus Empiricus in Outlines of Pyrronism form a variety of views which can be ordered by an interpretation of the classical logical square. In particular, scepticism appears as a conjunction of the negations of dogmatism and academism. The next problem concerns the logic proper for scepticism. Logic based on a dual of the consequence operation is proposed as satisfying in…Read more
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In the Scope of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science (Vol II) (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2002.
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25Analytic vs. synthetic and a priori vs. a posterioriIn Ilkka Niiniluoto, Matti Sintonen & Jan Woleński (eds.), Handbook of Epistemology, Kluwer Academic. pp. 781--839. 2004.
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Tadeusz Kotarbinski-Reism and SciencePoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 74 47-52. 2001.
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29Handbook of the History of Logic: vol. 5, Logic from Russell to ChurchHistory and Philosophy of Logic 35 (1): 1-6. 2014.The editors of the Handbook of the History of Logic adopted various strategies of narration in particular volumes of the entire work. Presentations are sometimes o...
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„Ruch Filozoficzny\" jako kronika rozwoju logiki w Polsce (lata 1918-1939)Ruch Filozoficzny 68 (4). 2011.
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16The Cognitive Relation in a Formal SettingStudia Logica 86 (3): 479-497. 2007.This paper proposes a formal framework for the cognitive relation understood as an ordered pair with the cognitive subject and object of cognition as its members. The cognitive subject is represented as consisting of a language, conequence relation and a stock of accepted theories, and the object as a model of those theories. This language allows a simple formulation of the realism/anti-realism controversy. In particular, Tarski’s undefinability theorem gives a philosophical argument for realism…Read more
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Wajsberg on the first-order predicate calculus for the finite modelsBulletin of the Section of Logic 2 (2): 107-111. 1973.
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65Truth and ConsistencyAxiomathes 20 (2-3): 347-355. 2010.This paper investigates relations between truth and consistency. The basic intuition is that truth implies consistency, but the reverse dependence fails. However, this simple account leads to some troubles, due to some metalogical results, in particular the Gödel-Malcev completeness theorem. Thus, a more advanced analysis is required. This is done by employing the concept of ω-consistency and ω-inconsistency. Both concepts motivate that the concept of the standard truth should be introduced as w…Read more
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52What is formal in formal semantics?Dialectica 58 (3). 2004.Formal semantics is understood either as a formal analysis of semantical features of natural language or as model-theoretic semantics of formal(ized) languages. This paper focuses on the second understanding. The problem is how to identify the formal aspects of formal semantics, if we understand ‘formal’ as ‘independent of content’. This is done by showing that the form of semantical interpretation of a language L is given by its syntax and the parallelism of the signature of L and its interpret…Read more
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17Logic and MathematicsVienna Circle Institute Yearbook 3 197-210. 1995.There are two possible strategies for investigating questions on logic and mathematics. First, one can adopt the pattern recommended by the phenomenologists, which consists in looking for the actual essences of logic and mathematics in order to relate both fields. The second approach, adopted in this paper, starts with a historical review of the foundational standpoints. I will then try to extract on this base some insights on how logic and mathematics are mutually related. In particular, I am i…Read more
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