The Vienna Circle and the Lvov-Warsaw School

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Nijhoff International Philosophy Series VOLUME 38

General Editor: JAN T.J. SRZEDNICKI Editor jor volumes on Applying Philosophy: LYNNE M. BROUGHTON Editor jar volumes on Logic and Applying Logic: STAN ISLA W J. SURMA Editor jor volumes on Contributions to Philosophy: JAN T.J. SRZEDNICKI Assistant to the General Editor: DAVID WOOD Editorial Advisory Board: R.M. Chisholm, Brown University, Rhode Island. Mats Furberg, Goteborg University. D.A.T. Gasking, University of Melbourne. H.L.A. Hart, University College, Oxford. S. Korner, University of Bristol and Yale University. H.J. McCloskey, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Melbourne. J. Passmore, Australian National University, Canberra. A. Quinton, Trinity College, Oxford. Nathan Rotenstreich, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Franco Spisani, Centro Superiore di Logica e Scienze Comparate, Bologna. R. Ziedins, Waikato University, New Zealand.

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Klemens Szaniawski Institute of Philosophy, Warsaw University, Poland

The Vienna Circle and the Lvov-Warsaw School

KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBLISHERS DORDRECHT / BOSTON / LONDON

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The Vienna circle and the Lvov-Warsaw school/edited by Klemens Szan 1 awsk I. p. cm. -- (N1Jhoff Internatlonal phi losophy series) Includes lndex. 1. Vienna clrcle--Congresses. 2. Lvov-Warsaw school of phllosophy--Congresses. I. Szanlawskl. Klemens. II. Series. 6824.S.V54 1988 146' .42--dc19

88-28343

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Table of Contents

Foreword by Klemens Szaniawski

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Mogens Blegvad VIENNA, WARSAW,COPENHAGEN

J6zej M. Bochenski THE CRACOW CIRCLE

9

Barry Smith AUSTRIAN ORIGINS OF LOGICAL POSITIVISM

19

Marian Przelecki THE APPROACH TO METAPHYSICS IN THE LVOV-W ARSAW SCHOOL

55

Guido Kung AJDUKIEWICZ'S CONTRIBUTION TO THE REALISM/IDEALISM DEBATE

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Witold Marciszewski TOWARDS UNNERSAL GRAMMARS CARNAP's AND AJDUKIEWICZ' CONTRIBUTIONS

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Wojciech Buszkowski PRINCIPLES OF CA1EGORIAL GRAMMAR IN THE LIGHT OF CURRENT FORMALISMS

113

W.Haas ON 'CATEGORIAL GRAMMAR'

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Gerhard Zecha META-ETHICS: CONTRIBUTIONS FR