Abstract
The aim of the paper is presentation and critical analysis of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz’s concept of the world-view. Ajdukiewicz’s philosophy was strongly inspired by the rationalism of Kazimierz Twardowski as well as by some ideas of the Vienna Circle. However, in contrast to the latter's logical empiricism, Ajdukiewicz could be interpreted as holding that beliefs constituting our world-view have both logical value and cognitive content—they cannot be construed as mere expression of some emotions.
Highlights
The aim of this paper is to present Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz’s views on the concept of world-view and rationality of religious beliefs
Both thinkers renewed some classical ideas in nineteenth century philosophy one essential feature of which was the close connection of basic philosophical disciplines
Perhaps the best way to describe Ajdukiewicz’s philosophical views in a synthetic way, as well as the views of the School founded by Kazimierz Twardowski to which Ajdukiewicz belonged, is by saying that the program of the Lvov–Warsaw School was similar in some respects to logical positivism
Summary
Perhaps the best way to describe Ajdukiewicz’s philosophical views in a synthetic way, as well as the views of the School founded by Kazimierz Twardowski to which Ajdukiewicz belonged, is by saying that the program of the Lvov–Warsaw School was similar in some respects to logical positivism. Someone could still object to the above interpretation of Ajdukiewicz’s standpoint on religious beliefs by saying that theistic beliefs are neither true nor false because they lack any factual meaning—and they cannot have any factual meaning at all The reason for the latter could be that the concept of God is not clear enough and it is mutable; propositions including this concept have no definite sense. The most coherent interpretation of Ajdukiewicz’s view on theistic and religious beliefs in general outlined far seems to be agnosticism: theistic beliefs have logical values: they are true or false, but we do not know these and we do not have sufficiently justified knowledge regarding the transcendent and supernatural world. The point now is that theistic beliefs are false and we have sufficient epistemic evidence to take them to be false.
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