Twenty-Five Years of Logical Methodology in Poland

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Methodology and Metascience

   • K. Ajdukiewicz

   Pages 1-12

3. The Problem of the Rationality of Fallible Methods of Inference

   • K. Ajdukiewicz

   Pages 13-30

4. The Problem of Justifying Analytic Sentences

   • K. Ajdukiewicz

   Pages 31-48

5. Axiomatic Systems From the Methodological Point of View

   • K. Ajdukiewicz

   Pages 49-63

6. The Problem of Probabilistic Justification of Enumerattve Induction

   • Zbigniew Czerwiński

   Pages 65-80

7. Enumerative Induction and the Theory of Games

   • Zbigniew Czerwiński

   Pages 81-91

8. On Testability in Empirical Sciences

   • T. Czeżowski

   Pages 93-109

9. On the Theoretical Sense of So-Called Observational Terms and Sentences

   • Jerzy Giedymin

   Pages 111-134

10. The Pragmatic Foundations of Semantics

    • Andrzej Grzegorczyk

    Pages 135-163

11. Mathematical and Empirical Verifiability

    • Andrzej Grzegorczyk

    Pages 165-169

12. Meaning and Functional Reason

    • Jerzy Kmita

    Pages 171-187

13. On a Certain Condition of Semantic Theory of Knowledge

    • Maria Kokoszyńska

    Pages 189-199

14. On the Difference Between Deductive and Non-Deductive Sciences

    • Maria Kokoszyńska

    Pages 201-231

15. On Ostensive Definitions

    • Janina Kotarbińska

    Pages 233-260

16. The Controversy: Deductivism Versus Inductivism

    • Janina Kotarbińska

    Pages 261-278

17. Concepts and Problems in General Methodology and Methodology of the Practical Sciences

    • Tadeusz Kotarbiński

    Pages 279-289

18. The Foundations of a Methodological Analysis of Mill’s Methods

    • Jerzy Łośa;

    Pages 291-325

19. Semantic Representation of the Probability of Formulas in Formalized Theories

    • Jerzy łoś

    Pages 327-340

20. Classification as a Kind of Distance Function. Natural Classifications

    • Seweryna Łuszczewska-Romahnowa

    Pages 341-373

The anthology presents a selection of methodological writings pub­ lished by Polish logicians after World War 11 (the first of them dated 1947). All the papers belong to what may be called Logical Methodology or Logical Theory of Science. The epithet 'logical' characterizes rather the general point of view than the particular methods employed by the authors. Apart from articles which make an essential use of different formal (logical and mathematical) methods, there are many which do not involve any formal apparatus whatsoever. The problems the papers deal with may be characterized as problems of the general methodology of empirical science. The papers do not consider the methodological problems of formal (mathematical) knowledge, and, as a rule, they are concerned with empirical science as a whole and not with some of its specific branches. The topics covered by the selected writings include the main issues and controversies discussed within the contemporary methodology of science. A considerable part of the anthology is con­ cerned with the semantics of empirica1languages and considers problems such as interpretation of observational and theoretical terms, analyticity, empirical meaningfulness, etc. Another group of papers deals with the problem of induction and examines various ways of its justification. Some articles discuss the nature and the status of methodology itself. The materials have been selected so as to make up a whole representative of what has been done in this field in Poland since 1945. The book comprises 33 articles by 20 authors.

• Interpretation
• Marx
• classification
• concept
• experience
• foundation
• knowledge
• marxism
• model
• probability
• rationality
• reason
• semantic
• semantics
• translation

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