Bernard Bolzano’s ‘Wissenschaftslehre’ and Polish Analytical Philosophy Between 1894 and 1935

Künne, Wolfgang

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“…Actually, this was a neuralgic point of an incorrect interpretation of Bolzano's approach. Bolzano did not open the door for the Meinongian multitude of fictional objects but claimed that if ideas in themselves have any objects, these are real; otherwise, the idea is objectless and there are no fictional entities corresponding to it (Künne 2003). These interpretative remarks show that Zalta's theory in its full power probably decides to much compared with original Bolzano's approach, but actually, this fact does not influence our research.…”

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Bolzano’s Argument for the Existence of Substances: a Formalization with Two Types of Predication

Świętorzecka

2017

Acta Anal

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The topic of our analysis is the argument for the existence of substances given by Bernard Bolzano in Athanasia (1827), where he essentially employs two ontological categories: substance and adherence. Bolzano considers the real and conditioned Inbegriff of all adherences, which are wirklich and nicht selbst bestehen. He claims that the formed collection is dependent on something external and nonadherential, which therefore is a substance. Bolzano's argumentation turns out to be structurally similar to his argument for the existence of God from Lehrbuch der Religionswissenschaft (1834), but in each of these reasonings, we find different plausible interpretations of the key concept "Inbegriff". The latter argumentation refers to the mereological totality of existentially conditioned objects. We propose the explication of the Bolzanian Inbegriff of all adherences using two types of predication: we consider its extension as composed of certain intensional counterparts of adherences. In our approach, we use a fragment of the theory of abstract objects formulated by E. Zalta (1983), describing two different relations between individuals and properties: extensional exemplification and intensional encoding. We put our reconstruction in a wider context of Bolzano's ontology, formulating the needed axioms with two primitive predicates of second order ... is an adherence, ... is conditioned by something real as well as the conditionally introduced first order predicate constant In for Inbegriff of all adherential ideas. Finally, we sketch a model for our theory.Keywords Formal ontology · Abstract objects · Argument for the existence of substances · Bernard Bolzano KordulaŚwiętorzecka

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Bolzano’s Argument for the Existence of Substances: a Formalization with Two Types of Predication

Świętorzecka

2017

Acta Anal

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“…The influence of Bolzano seems to be evident when we examine the notion of undetermined sentence (unbestimmte Aussage), cf. also Childers & Majer (1998), Niiniluoto (1998) and Künne (2003), p. 180-4. 4S The first time Bolzano's name appears in Lukasiewicz's works -next to Cantor's and Dedekind's -is as early as 1905, in Lukasiewicz's lecture on the concept ofinfinity.…”

Section: On the Bolzanization Of Polish Thoughtmentioning

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The Strange Case of Savonarola and the Painted Fish On the Bolzanization of Polish Thought

Betti¹

2006

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Bernard Bolzano’s ‘Wissenschaftslehre’ and Polish Analytical Philosophy Between 1894 and 1935

Cited by 2 publications

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Bolzano’s Argument for the Existence of Substances: a Formalization with Two Types of Predication

Bolzano’s Argument for the Existence of Substances: a Formalization with Two Types of Predication

The Strange Case of Savonarola and the Painted Fish On the Bolzanization of Polish Thought

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