Semiotics in Poland 1894–1969

In the Introduction to the Polish-language version of the present book I expressed the hope that Polish studies in semiotics would before long be numerous enough to make possible another anthology on semiotics in Poland containing material published since 1970. That hope has in fact come true. The f...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pelc, J. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1979, 1979
Edition:1st ed. 1979
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • On Clear and Obscure Styles of Philosophical Writing
  • Symbolomania and Pragmatophobia
  • On the Content and Object of Representations
  • Actions and Products. Comments on the Border Area of Psychology, Grammar, and Logic
  • Issues in the Logic of Adjectives
  • A Survey of Logical and Semantic Problems
  • The Reistic or Concretistic Approach
  • Comments on the Meaning of Words
  • The Controversy Over Designata
  • Token-reflexive Words Versus Proper Names
  • Connotation and Denotation
  • Proposition as the Connotation of Sentence
  • Intensional Expressions
  • Concerning the So-called Empty Names
  • Issues in the Philosophy of Proper Names
  • Truth and the Concept of Language
  • Ambiguity and the Language of Science
  • Significano ‘per se’ and ‘per aliud’ in Anselm
  • An Analysis of the Concept of Sign
  • The Controversy over the Limits of the Applicability of Logical Methods
  • Puzzles of Existence
  • Vague Words
  • Names and Predicates translated by P. T. Geach
  • On the Antinomy of the Liar and the Semantics of Natural Language
  • Normal and Non-normal Classes in Current Language
  • Normal and Non-Normal Classes Versus the Set-Theoretical and the Mereological Concept of Class
  • The Semantics of Open Concepts
  • Languages and Theories Adequate to the Ontology of the Language of Science
  • A Functional Approach to the Logical Semiotics of Natural Language
  • The Principle of Transparency and Semantic Antinomies
  • The Semantic Functions of Oblique Speech
  • The Semantic Conception of Truth in the Methodology of Empirical Sciences translated by Z. Wójcicka
  • The Attribute and the Class translated by B. Stanosz
  • Analyticity and Apriority
  • Sources of the Texts
  • Biographical and Bibliographical Notes