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10Scrutiny of Ajdukiewicz’s concepts of definitionStudies in East European Thought 68 (1): 11-20. 2016.The paper provides an analysis of two traditionally accepted distinctions between nominal and real definitions. The historical background is Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz’s conceptions of definitions as well as remarks by other members of the Lvov-Warsaw School of philosophy. The aim of the paper is to show that the analysed distinction, at least in Ajdukiewicz’s version, cannot be sustained.
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Kwadrat, zys i Trygław czyli o Jacka Jadackiego koncepcji semantycznej funkcji nazwFilozofia Nauki 1. 2007.The article contains the results of the analysis of concepts connected with semantic functions of names. The conception of Jacek Jadacki, exposed in his "Spór o granice jezyka" ("Controversy on the limits of language"), is the point of departure of this analysis. The following theses are formulated and argued for. (1) There are two basic semantic functions of names: the referential and the descriptive one. The first function consists in indicating some objects; the second one consists in ascribi…Read more
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Chapter V. The Communicative Function of QuestionsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 99 101-127. 2015.
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Chapter XIV. Psychological Analysis of QuestionsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 99 307-314
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29Tradition of the Lvov-Warsaw School : Ideas and Continuations (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2015.The volume aims to show the variety of research currents of the Lvov-Warsaw School and the ways in which these currents are developed today. The content of the book is divided into three parts: “Logic and Semiotics”, “Metaphysics and Ontology”, and “Psychology and Sociology”.
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A Generalized Notion Of ReasoningStudia Philosophica Wratislaviensia 7 (1): 105-119. 2012.The article proposes some extension of the concept of reasoning that includes also operations on interrogative sentences and imperative sentences , or rather on their contents — interrogations and prescriptions. Key words REASONING
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Optymalizacja terminologii naukowej (Na przykiadzie terminologii muzykologicznej)Studia Philosophiae Christianae 41 (1): 73-101. 2005.
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17Knowledge, Language and Silence: Selected Papers (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2016.Izydora Dąmbska was a Polish philosopher; a student of Kazimierz Twardowski, and his last assistant. The present volume includes twenty eight translations of her representative papers.
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Chapter XV. Questions in SurveysPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 99 315-330Survey - or research conducted with the help of questionnaires - is one of the most important methods in sociology. That is why I shall present the problems concerning of surveys and questionnaires on the example of sociology. But one has to remember that the remarks made in this chapter also refer to questionnaires in other disciplines in which one examines human beings and communities.
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189Theory of Imperatives from Different Points of View (2) (edited book)Wydawnictwo Naukowe Semper. 2013.The previous volume of the series Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science at Warsaw University---entitled Imperatives from Different Points of View---was the first result of the project Theory of Imperatives and Its Applications realized by the group composed by Anna Brożek, Jacek Jadacki and Berislav Žarnić. The project was supported by the Foundation for Polish Science within the program Homing Plus. One of the most important points of this project was the International Symposium Imperati…Read more
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Chapter XIII. Erotetic ReasoningPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 99 279-306
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Spory rzeczowe i słowneFilozofia Nauki 20 (4). 2012.The main subject of the paper is to present the criteria which help us to establish whether a given ontological controversy (or even a whole dispute) is substantial or merely verbal. Metaphysics is often perceived as a discipline composed of endless disputes with no glimpse of hope for solution. This fact makes many philosophers claim that ontology is nothing more than matter of linguistic choice. In this paper, we argue that there exist certain methodological tools which enable us to establish …Read more
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1O pytaniach filozoficznych i ich rozstrzygalnościStudia Philosophiae Christianae 45 (1): 7-25. 2009.
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23Intuicje modalneRoczniki Filozoficzne 56 (1): 39-59. 2008.The authors proposes a philosophical hinterland of nomological type for various conceptions of alethic modalities. Differences among these conceptions are explained by the fact, that modalizators can be relativized to various types of laws. Thus one can speak respectively about logic and definitional, ontical and physical, technical and dispositional, psychological and methodological, and finally deontic modalities. The authors shows that in their conceptual apparatus modal logics find intuit…Read more
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Chapter XVII. Questions in Legal ProceedingsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 99 343-356
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7VIII Polski Zjazd Filozoficzny, księga streszczeń: Warszawa, 15-20 września 2008 roku (edited book)Wydawn. Naukowe "Semper". 2008.
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91Bocheński on authorityStudies in East European Thought 65 (1-2): 115-133. 2013.Józef Maria Bocheński introduced an important distinction between deontic and epistemic authority. A typical example of epistemic authority is the relation of a teacher to his students; a typical example of deontic authority is the relation between an employer and his employee. The difference between the two lies in domains of authority: declarative sentences make up the domain in the case of epistemic authority, orders—in the domain of deontic authority. In the article, I analyze in detail the …Read more
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969Performatives and ImperativesEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy 7 (2): 17-34. 2011.The term “performative” is used in at least two different senses. In the first sense, performatives are generatives, i.e. expressions by the use of which one creates new deontic states of affairs on the ground of extralinguistic conventions. In the second sense, performatives are operatives, i.e. expressions which contain verbal predicates and state their own utterances. In the article, both these types of expressions are compared to the class of imperatives which are characterized as expressio…Read more
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Ne sutor ultra crepidam. Kazimierz Twardowski o filozofii i nauceZagadnienia Filozoficzne W Nauce 46. 2010.
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Chapter XI. The Analysis of Erotetic SituationPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 99 241-259In this chapter, I sketch the aspects of erotetic which, on the one hand, are not presented in previous chapters, and, on the other hand, are important with respect to some practical applications of erotetics which are presented in the third part of the book. I start from describing the modifications of a typical erotetic situation and indicating some kinds of questions put in untypical situations. Furthermore, I shall concentrate on the situational concepts of an answer. The last part of the ch…Read more
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Chapter X. Embedded QuestionsPoznan Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities 99 227-239
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4On Prejudices, Judgments, and Other Topics in Philosophy (edited book)Brill | Rodopi. 2014.The volume contains almost thirty papers by Kazimierz Twardowski, the founder of the Lvov-Warsaw School. The papers are published in English for the first time. The papers concern fundamental problems of philosophy: the methods of philosophizing, the boundary of psychology and semiotics, the conceptual apparatus of metaphysics, ethical skepticism, the question of free will and ethical obligation, the aesthetics of music and so on. The systematic considerations are complemented by concise but exc…Read more
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Myślenie a mówienie. Na marginesie uwag Kazimierza TwardowskiegoAnaliza I Egzystencja 29 45-60. 2015.
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7Minimalizm etyczny Tadeusza KotarbińskiegoEtyka 39 48-71. 2006.Artykuł zawiera zarys rekonstrukcji poglądów etycznych Tadeusza Kotarbińskiego. Analiza pism etycznych Kotarbińskiego — niestety dalekich od ideału precyzji — pozwala sądzić, że na jego system etyczny składają się m.in. następujące tezy. Podstawową negatywną normą moralną jest norma „Nie powinieneś nikomu czynić zła ponad niezbędną potrzebę”, a podstawową pozytywną normą moralną jest norma „Powinieneś komuś czynić dobro”; stąd etykę Kotarbińskiego wolno nazwać „altruizmem lokalnym”. Za naczelną …Read more