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On the Content and Object of Presentations

A Psychological Investigation

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  • © 1977

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  1. Kasimir Twardowski
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Part of the book series: Melbourne International Philosophy Series (MIPS, volume 4)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXXIV
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  2. Act, Content, and Object of the Presentation

    • Kasimir Twardowski
    Pages 1-2

  3. Act, Content, and Object of the Judgment

    • Kasimir Twardowski
    Pages 3-7

  4. Names and Presentations

    • Kasimir Twardowski
    Pages 8-10

  5. The “Presented”

    • Kasimir Twardowski
    Pages 11-17

  6. So-Called “Objectless” Presentations

    • Kasimir Twardowski
    Pages 18-26

  7. The Difference between Content and Object

    • Kasimir Twardowski
    Pages 27-31

  8. Description of the Object of a Presentation

    • Kasimir Twardowski
    Pages 32-37

  9. The Ambiguity of the Term ‘Characteristic’

    • Kasimir Twardowski
    Pages 38-45

  10. The Material Constituents of the Object

    • Kasimir Twardowski
    Pages 46-49

  11. The Formal Constituents of the Object

    • Kasimir Twardowski
    Pages 50-59

  12. The Constituents of the Content

    • Kasimir Twardowski
    Pages 60-63

  13. The Relationship between the Object and the Content of a Presentation

    • Kasimir Twardowski
    Pages 64-77

  14. The Characteristic

    • Kasimir Twardowski
    Pages 78-87

  15. Indirect Presentations

    • Kasimir Twardowski
    Pages 88-96

  16. The Objects of General Presentations

    • Kasimir Twardowski
    Pages 97-105
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About this book

Twardowski's little book - of which I here offer a translation - is one of the most remarkable works in the history of modern philosophy. It is concise, clear, and - in Findlay's words - "amazingly rich in ideas. "l It is therefore a paradigm of what some contemporary philosophers approvingly call "analytic philosophy. " But Twardowski's book is also of considerable historical significance. His views reflect Brentano's ear­ lier position and thus shed some light on this stage of Brentano's philo­ sophy. Furthermore, they form a link between this stage, on the one hand, and those two grandiose attempts to propagate rationalism in an age of science, on the other hand, which are known as Meinong's theory of entities and HusserI's phenomenology. Twardowski's views thus point to the future and introduce many of the problems which, through the influence of Meinong, HusserI, Russell, and Moore, have become standard fare in contemporary philosophy. In this introduc­ tion, I shall call attention to the close connection between some of Twardowski's main ideas and the corresponding thoughts of these four philosophers. 1. IDEAS AND THEIR INTENTIONS Twardowski's main contention is clear. He claims that we must dis­ tinguish between the act, the content, and the object of a presentation. The crucial German term is 'V orstellung. ' This term has a corresponding verb and allows for such expressions as 'das V orgestellte.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: On the Content and Object of Presentations

  • Book Subtitle: A Psychological Investigation

  • Authors: Kasimir Twardowski

  • Series Title: Melbourne International Philosophy Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1050-4

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands 1977

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-247-1926-6Published: 31 May 1977

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1050-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 140

  • Additional Information: Originally published in Polish

  • Topics: Ontology, Epistemology, Modern Philosophy

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