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Klemens Szaniawski-Rationality and Statistical MethodsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 74 169-172. 2001.
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Informacja i semantykaFilozofia Nauki 1. 1997.Two different kinds (or levels) of information are distinguished and compared: physical and semantical. The author indicates that semantic information cannot be reduced to physical information, and that the former is more diffiult to explain than the latter, while the latter is less useful and less interesting
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Susan Haack on Twardowski's Refutation of the Relativity of TruthFilozofia Nauki 19 (4). 2011.This paper comments Susan Haack’s remarks about Twardowski’s criticism of relativism in the theory of truth. The author summarizes Twardowski’s arguments for truth-absolutism and tries to show that that their presentation by Haack is incomplete. The defense of Twardowski’s position in the paper uses ideas developed by Tarski and Kokoszyñska
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Torsten WILHOLT: Zahl und Wirklichkeit. Eine philosophische Untersuchung uber die Anwendbarkeit der Mathematik, mentis, Paderborn, 2004Grazer Philosophische Studien 70 (1): 274. 2006.
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7O paradoksie konfirmacjiRoczniki Filozoficzne 56 (1): 355-361. 2008.This paper is devoted to analysis of co-called paradox of confirmation formulated by C. G. Hempel in the 1930s. In particular, the author proposes a solution of this puzzle. The proposal consists in refining the concept of confirmation by adding a clause that if A confirms a hypothesis h, the former must be a logical consequence of a latter, eventually derived with the help of additional assumptions. This leads to an additional constraint requiring that confirmations act relatively to sets of re…Read more
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Marxism and the professionalisation of philosophyIn János Kristóf Nyíri & Barry Smith (eds.), Philosophy and political change in Eastern Europe, Hegeler Institute. 1993.
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15The problem of philosophical assumptions and consequences of scienceStudia Philosophiae Christianae 47 (4): 117-134. 2011.This paper argues that science is not dependent on philosophical assumption and does not entail philosophical consequences. The concept of dependence and entailment is understood logically, that is, are defined via consequence operation. Speaking more colloquially, the derivation of scientific theorems does not use philosophical statements as premises and one cannot derive philosophical theses from scientific assertions. This does not mean that science and philosophy are completely separated. In…Read more
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30Formal metaphilosophy in finlandPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 80 (1): 107-131. 2003.Finland is internationally known as one of the leading centers of twentieth century analytic philosophy. This volume offers for the first time an overall survey of the Finnish analytic school. The rise of this trend is illustrated by original articles of Edward Westermarck, Eino Kaila, Georg Henrik von Wright, and Jaakko Hintikka. Contributions of Finnish philosophers are then systematically discussed in the fields of logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, history of philosophy, e…Read more
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Władysław Witwicki jako filozofFilozofia Nauki 3. 1999.Władysław Witwicki was first of all a psychologist, but he graduated in philosophy from Lvov University, being one of the earliest pupils of Kazimierz Twardowski. He was a representative of the descriptivistic branch of the Lvov-Warsaw School. In the area of phsychology he put into practice the important postulate of his teacher, who persuaded his students to write original handbooks, giving Polish scholar contributions their due: it is how the work on Witwicki's Psychology began. In the area of…Read more
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Logic from a metalogical point of viewIn E. Orłowska (ed.), Logic at Work, Heidelberg. pp. 25--35. 1999.
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Analyticity, decidability and incompletenessIn J. Czermak (ed.), Philosophy of Mathematics, Hölder-pichler-tempsky. pp. 379--382. 1993.
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2Theism, fideism, atheism, agnosticismIn Lars-Göran Johansson, Jan Österberg, Rysiek Śliwiński & Jordan Howard Sobel (eds.), Logic, Ethics and All That Jazz: Essays in Honour of Jordan Howard Sobel, Dept. of Philosophy, Uppsala University. pp. 387--400. 2009.
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5Ways of Dealing with Non-existenceGrazer Philosophische Studien 50 (1): 113-127. 1995.Non-existence provides big problems for ontology and modest for logic. Logical problems of non-existence consist in licensing inferences in which sentences with empty terms are involved. The standard predicate logic solves this question by presupposing that every individual constant has an object to which it refers. This means that empty domains are excluded from semantics for the first-order logic. However, there is a temptation to consider logic without existential presuppositions.The ontologi…Read more
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