On the Sources of Contemporary Polish Logic

Jadacki, Jacek; Harandon, Richard

doi:10.5840/dialecticshumanism19807414

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“…I would be very glad, if you could have a good translation of this book, because I am sure that the subject would be interesting to you, my theory being, as a matter of fact, an application of the Theory of Types to philosophical problems (Jadacki 1986, 254).11 Subsequent letters by Russell to Chwistek (10 October 1923) and a response from Chwistek (29 October 1923) indicate that Russell intended to find someone to translate the book from Polish. However, in the end Russell was unable to get Wielość rzeczywistości translated.12 11The entire correspondence is published in Jadacki (1986). 12Chwistek also thanks Russell for a copy of the English translation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus with Russell's Introduction.…”

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Two Poles Worlds Apart

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Linsky

2022

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The article describes the background of Roman Ingarden's 1922 review of Leon Chwistek's book Wielość rzeczywistości (The Plurality of Realities), and the back-and-forth that followed. Despite the differences, the two shared some interesting similarities. Both authors had important ties to the intellectual happenings outside Poland and were not considerd mainstream at home. In the end, however, it is these connections that allowed them to gain recognition. Ingarden, who had been a student of Husserl, became the leading phenomenologist in the postwar Poland. For Chwistek, a painter, philosopher, and logician interested in Russell’s work, such connections meant that he won the competition for a professorship at the university in Lwów over Alfred Tarski. Until recently, Chwistek’s place in Polish logic remains unclear and Ingarden’s interactions with Polish logic and the Vienna Circle have not been investigated extensively. A deeper look at this intellectual fracas between Ingarden and Chwistek helps one in the study of the complicated mesh of alliances within the Lwów-Warsaw School. The article also identifies the origins of the split between phenomenology and the analytic philosophical tradition in Poland. The article is also accompanied by the translations of the reviews.

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Section: The Background To the Debatementioning

confidence: 99%