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The fundamental error in many discussions from the field of epistemology is the (more or less open) manipulation of the symbolic epistemological subject, known as ‘human spirit’, ‘human mind’, ‘research worker’ or simply ‘man’ (‘John’, ’Socrates’), which has no concrete living position, which does not basically undergo changes even in the course of centuries and which represents every ‘normal’ man regardless of the surroundings and the epoch. Thus it is to be absolute, unchanging and general.
Przegląd Filozoficzny (1936).
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Emerson: Representatives of Mankind (translated by Kreczowska), pp. 114–115.
J�F3;zef Rostafiński (ed.), Cracow, 1893.
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PrzeglądFilozoficzny (1935).
These difficulties cannot be unravelled even by many-valued logic alone (-Łukasiewicz, Post, Zawirski) or by probability logic (Reichenbach), as logical calculation is only possible in relation to uniformly clear (understandable) sentences, and not when, inter alia, sentences with an unclear content and non-comparable notions are involved, i.e., sentences expressed in a foreign style or in a style which is precisely that of the period of faster development.
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Fleck, L. (1986). The Problem of Epistemology [1936]. In: Cognition and Fact. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 87. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4498-5_5
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