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Dąmbska, Izydora,

Knowledge, language, and silence : selected papers / by Izydora Dąmbska ; edited by Anna Brozek, Jacek Jadacki ; translated from the Polish by Katarzyna Cullen. - 1 online resource - Poznán studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities, volume 105 0303-8157 ; Polish analytical philosophy . - Poznań studies in the philosophy of the sciences and the humanities ; v. 105. Polish analytical philosophy. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / On the Need to Philosophize / On the Meaning of the History of Science for Philosophy / On Duality in the Aspect of Being and Cognition and on the Tendency to Overcome this Duality as the Basis for Philosophical Trends and Standpoints / A Few Remarks on Cognitive Values / Is Intersubjective Similarity of Sensory Impressions a Necessary Assumption in Natural Sciences? / Irrationalism and Scientific Cognition / Conventionalism and Relativism / Skepticism and Agnosticism in Contemporary Epistemology / On the Kinds of Skepticism / Philosophical Skepticism and the Scientific Method / On Some Methods of Justifying Sentences about Future Events / A Few Remarks on Reasoning by Analogy / Laws of Physics and the Postulate of Truthfulness of Scientific Statements / On Prospective Definitions / Logical Division and Definition / Some Notions of Grammar in View of Logic / On Semiotic Conventions / Symbol / On the Philosophy of Proper Names / Regarding the So-Called Empty Names / On the Semantics of Adjectives / On the Semantics of Conditional Sentences / The Conception of Language and Truth / On Namelessness / Silence as an Expression and as a Value / On the Semiotic Functions of Silence / On the Notion of Understanding / When I Think of the Word "Freedom". / Editorial Afterword: Izydora Dąmbska -- A Steadfast Thinker / Bibliography / Name Index / Anna Brożek and Jacek Jadacki -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Anna Brożek and Jacek Jadacki -- Izydora Dąmbska -- Izydora Dąmbska.

Izydora Da¿·mbska (1904-1982) was a Polish philosopher; a student of Kazimierz Twardowski, and his last assistant. Her output consists of almost 300 publications. The main domains of her research were semiotics, epistemology and broadly understood methodology as well as axiology and history of philosophy. Da¿·mbska¿́¿s approach to philosophical problems reflected tendencies that were characteristic of the Lvov-Warsaw School. She applied high methodological standards but has never limited the domain of analyzed problems in advance. The present volume includes twenty-eight translations of her representative papers. As one of her pupils rightly wrote: ¿́¿Da¿·mbska¿́¿s works may help everyone ... to think clearly. Her attitude of an unshaken philosopher may help anyone to hold oneself straight, and, if necessary, to get up after a fall¿́¿.

ISBN: 9004312676 (E-book) 9789004312678 (electronic bk.) (hardback ; alk. paper)

Source: 891042 MIL

LCCN: 2016010769

Subjects--Chronological Terms:
1900-1999

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Philosophy, Polish--20th century.
Philosophie polonaise--20e siècle.
PHILOSOPHY--History & Surveys--Modern.
Philosophy, Polish.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: B4691.D362

Dewey Class. No.: 199/.438