The Heritage of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

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Preface. Jerzy GIEDYMIN: Ajdukiewicz's Life and Personality. Kazimierz AJDUKIEWICZ: My Philosophical Ideas. Liliana ALBERTAZZI: Some Elements of Transcendentalism in Ajdukiewicz. Tadeusz BATOG: Ajdukiewicz and the Development of Formal Logic. Alonzo CHURCH: A Theory of the Meaning of Names. Miroslawa CZARNAWSKA: The Way from Concept to Thought. Does it Exist in Ajdukiewicz's Semantical Theory? Evelyn DOLLING: Real Objects and Existence. Jerzy GIEDYMIN: Radical Conventionalism, Its Background and Evolution: Poincare, LeRoy, Ajdukiewicz. Jacek J. JADACKI: Definition, Explication and Paraphrase in the Ajdukiewiczian Tradition. Guido KUNG: Ajdukiewicz's Contribution to the Realism/Idealism Debate. Janusz MACIASZEK: Problems of Proper Names: Ajdukiewicz and Some Contemporary Results. Witold MARCISZEWSKI: Real Definitions and Creativity. Krystyna MISIUNA: Categorial Grammar and Ontological Commitment. Leszek NOWAK: Ajdukiewicz and the Status of the Logical Theory of Natural Language. Adam OLECH: Some Remarks on Ajdukiewicz's and Husserl's Approaches to Meaning. Alex ORENSTEIN: Existence Sentences. Jaroslaw PASEK: Ajdukiewicz on Indicative Conditional. Roberto POLI: The Problem of Position: Ajdukiewicz and Leibniz on Intensional Expressions. Marian PRZELECKI: The Law of Excluded Middle and the Problem of Idealism. Henryk SKOLIMOWSKI: Ajdukiewicz, Rationality and Language. Klemens SZANIAWSKI: Ajdukiewicz on Non-Deductive Inference. Achille VARZI: Variable-Binders as Functors. Vladimir VASYUKOV: Categorial Semantics for Ajdukiewicz-Lambek Calculus. Heinrich WANSING: On the Expressiveness of Categorial Grammar. Jan WOLENSKI: On Ajdukiewicz's Refutation of Scepticism. Bibliography of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz's Publications. Bibliography on Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz in Western Languages. Authors and Editors