Science – Logic – Philosophy. An old problem resuscitated

• Authors: Pavel Materna
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

I argue that Hume’s and Carnap’s criticism of philosophy (metaphysic) contains a rational core and that this core can be much more sharply formulated as soon as a procedural theory of concepts is applied. Also, a possible solution to the problem can be suggested in a much more definite manner.

Keywords

EN

concept; conceptual systems; constructions; Transparent Intensional Logic

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Mikołaja Kopernika (Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń)
• Journal: Logic and Logical Philosophy
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 21
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 107-126

Dates

published

2012-06-01

online

2013-07-02

Contributors

author

Pavel Materna

• Institute of Philosophy of Academy of Science of Czech Republic Prague, Czech Republic

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12775/LLP.2012.007