Philosophical Logic in Poland

Poland has played an enormous role in the development of mathematical logic. Leading Polish logicians, like Lesniewski, Lukasiewicz and Tarski, produced several works related to philosophical logic, a field covering different topics relevant to philosophical foundations of logic itself, as well as v...

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Other Authors: Wolenski, Jan (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1994, 1994
Edition:1st ed. 1994
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:
  • Morals of Thought and Speech — Reminiscences
  • What Has Logic Given to Philosophy?
  • Classical, Relativistic and Constructivist Ways of Asserting Theorems
  • Semantic Niches Or a Logic for Historians
  • Objects and Properties
  • Inferential Many-Valuedness
  • A Ja?kowski-Style System of Computer-Assisted Reasoning
  • Hilbert’s Program: Incompleteness Theorems Vs. Partial Realizations
  • The Logic of Objects
  • Non-Fregean Semantics for Sentences
  • Relational Semantics for Non-Classical Logics: Formulas are Relations
  • Non-Standard Possible Worlds, Generalised Quantifiers and Modal Logic
  • Against Straightforward Anti-Realism
  • A Minimal Implicational Logic
  • Knowledge Representation Systems for Groups of Agents
  • Characterizing Propositional Logics by Formulas
  • The Reification of Situations
  • Intuitionism and Indeterminism (Tense-Logical Considerations)
  • Asymmetrical Relations
  • Types of Predication
  • Remarks on Extensionality and Intensionality
  • On the Synthetic a priori
  • Realism Vs Relativism in Philosophy of Science (Some Comments on Tarski’s Theory of Truth)
  • Index of Names