The Scientific World-Perspective and Other Essays, 1931–1963

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-LIII

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2. On the Meaning of Expressions (1931)

   • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

   Pages 1-34

3. Language and Meaning (1934)

   • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

   Pages 35-66

4. The World-Picture and the Conceptual Apparatus (1934)

   • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

   Pages 67-89

5. On the Applicability of Pure Logic to Philosophical Problems (1934)

   • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

   Pages 90-94

6. On the Problem of Universals (1935)

   • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

   Pages 95-110

7. The Scientific World-Perspective (1935)

   • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

   Pages 111-117

8. Syntactic Connexion (1936)

   • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

   Pages 118-139

9. A Semantical Version of the Problem of Transcendental Idealism (1937)

   • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

   Pages 140-154

10. Interrogative Sentences (1934/1938)

    • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

    Pages 155-164

11. Logic and Experience (1947)

    • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

    Pages 165-181

12. Epistemology And Semiotics (1948)

    • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

    Pages 182-191

13. Change and Contradiction (1948)

    • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

    Pages 192-208

14. On the Notion of Existence (1949)

    • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

    Pages 209-221

15. Conditional Statement and Material Implication (1956)

    • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

    Pages 222-238

16. The Problem of the Rationality of Non-Deductive Types of Inference (1958)

    • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

    Pages 239-253

17. The Problem of the Foundation of Analytic Sentences (1958)

    • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

    Pages 254-268

18. Syntactical Connections Between Constituents of Declarative Sentences (1960)

    • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

    Pages 269-281

19. Axiomatic Systems from the Methodological Point Of View (I960)

    • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

    Pages 282-294

20. The Problem of Foundation (1963)

    • Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

    Pages 295-305

Though with considerable delay, most of the writings of Polish logicians of the inter-war period are now available in English. This is not yet true of Polish philosophy. In the present volume English-speaking readers will fmd, for the first time, a sizeable collection of the articles of one of the most original and distinguished of Poland's philosophers of the present century, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890-1963). To be sure, Ajdukiewicz was a philosopher-logician from the beginning of his career. His first work of some importance, a monograph entitled From the Methodology of the Deductive Sciences (1921 post-dated; two abstracts published in 1919/20) exhibited two features which were to become charac­ teristic of the style of his later philosophy: On the one hand the monograph was the result of Ajdukiewicz's deep interest in the systems of modern logic, the foundations of mathematics, in the properties of deductive systems and their relevance to philosophy; on the other hand the monograph was an attempt at developing an 'understanding methodology' (in the sense of Gennan 'Verstehende Methodologie') of deductive sciences, i. e. a pragmatic study of axiomatic systems which would supplement purely formal investiga­ tions of those systems. The fonner made him a close ally oflogical empiricists; the latter was rooted in the henneneutic tradition of the second half of the 19th century (Dilthey) which spilled over into the 20th century (Spranger) and which was not cherished at all by logical empiricists.

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• Logic and Scientific Method Division, School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, University of Sussex, UK

  Jerzy Giedymin

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