The Lvov-Warsaw School and Contemporary Philosophy

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Preface. Introduction. The Reception of the Lvov-Warsaw School J. Wolenski. Part I: History and Comparisons. Twardowski's Distinction Between Actions and Products J. Brandl. On Ajdukiewicz's Empirical Meaning- Rule and Wittgenstein's Defining Criterion T. Czarnecki. Inspirations and Controversies: From the Letters Between K. Twardowski and A. Meinong R. Jadczak. The Lvov-Warsaw School - the First School of Non-Positivist Scientific and Analytic Philosophy W. Krajewski. Women's Contributions to the Achievements of the Lvov-Warsaw School: A Survey E. Pakszys. Truth-Bearers from Twardowski to Tarski A. Rojszczak. Twardowski and Husserl on Wholes and Parts M. Rosiak. The Rationalistic Paradigm of Franz Brentano and Kazimierz Twardowski E.G. Vinogradov. Lukasiewicz's Interpretation of Aristotle's Concept of Possibility U. Zeglen. Part II: Lesniewski. De Veritate: Another Chapter. The Bolzano-Lesniewski Connection A. Betti. Lesniewski's Conception of Logic R. Poli, M. Libardi. Non-Elementary Exegesis of Twardowski's Theory of Presentation V.L. Vasiukov. On Some Essential Subsystems of Lesniewski's Ontology and the Equivalence Between the Singular Barbara and the Law of Leibniz in Ontology T. Waragai. Part III: Philosophy of Language. The Paradox of Grelling and Nelson Presented as a Veridical Observation Concerning Naming A. Grzegorczyk. Dambska, Quine and the So-Called Empty Names M. Marsonet. Truth and Time K. Misiuna. The Postulate of Precision: Its Sense and Its Limits M. Przelecki. Polish Logic, Language and Philosophy of Language R. Zuber. Part IV: Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics. The Ajdukiewicz Calculus, Polish Notationand Hilbert-Style Proofs W. Buszkowski. Jaskowski and Gentzen Approaches to Natural Deduction and Related Systems A. Indrzejczak. The Contribution of Polish Logicians to Recursion Theory R. Murawski. Studying Incompleteness of Information: A Class of Information Logics E. Orlowska. Part V: Ontology, Epistemology, Philosophy of Science. On Lukasiewicz's Theory of Probability T. Childers, O. Majer. On What There Is Not -- A Vindication of Reism J. Czerniawski. On the Concept of a Subject of Cognition in Ajdukiewicz's Philosophy A. Kanik. Induction and Probability in the Lvov-Warsaw School I. Niiniluoto. Lukasiewicz's Logical Probability and a Puzzle About Conditionalization T. Placek. Part VI: Logic and Philosophy. Truth as Consensus. A Logical Analysis K. Kijania-Placek. The Lvov-Warsaw School and the Problem of a Logical Formalism for General Systems Theory A.I. Uyemov. From Closure-Operatic Deductive Methodology to Non-Standard Alternatives S.J. Surma. Forgotten and Neglected Solutions of Problems in Philosophical Logic P. Weingartner. Index of Names.