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Ajdukiewicz on Language Change and Truth

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Philosophy and Logic in Search of the Polish Tradition

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In 1934 Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz published two related papers: ‘Language and Meaning’1 and ‘The World-Picture and the Conceptual Apparatus’2, whose main purpose was to apply a theory of language to explain the indisputable fact that science evolves. His project comprised a conception of meaning-rules, the thesis of radical conventionalism, a pragmatic explanation of truth and criteria of goodness for World-Pictures.3

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  1. K. Ajdukiewicz: 1978a, ‘Language and Meaning’, in: J. Giedymin (ed.), The Scientific World-Perspective and other Essays (1931–1963), D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, 1978, pp. 35–66. First published in Erkenntnis 4 (1934), pp. 100–138.

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  3. For a comprehensive discussion of Ajdukiewicz’s semantics and conventionalism see: J. Woléski: 1989, Logic and Philosophy in the Lvov-Warsaw School, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, pp. 199–213.

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  1. Institute of Philosophy, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland

    Tadeusz Czarnecki

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  1. Boston University, Boston, USA

    Jaakko Hintikka

  2. Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Poland

    Tadeusz Czarnecki , Katarzyna Kijania-Placek , Tomasz Placek  & Artur Rojszczak , ,  & 

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Czarnecki, T. (2003). Ajdukiewicz on Language Change and Truth. In: Hintikka, J., Czarnecki, T., Kijania-Placek, K., Placek, T., Rojszczak, A. (eds) Philosophy and Logic in Search of the Polish Tradition. Synthese Library, vol 323. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0249-2_10

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