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Twardowski on Presentations and Truth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2015

Katarzyna Kijania-Placek
Katarzyna Kijania-Placek*
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Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. E-mail: katarzyna.kijania-placek@uj.edu.pl
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Abstract

This paper is concerned with Twardowski’s role as a teacher and a founder of the Lvov-Warsaw School of logic and philosophy as well as with his main contributions to philosophy: the distinction between the content and object of presentations and his defense of objective truth, which initiated a debate on the eternity of truth in the School. It would perhaps be no exaggeration to say that the emergence of the Lvov-Warsaw School was the result of the premeditated efforts of one philosopher, namely Kazimierz Twardowski. Therefore, I will first present Twardowski’s role as a teacher and founder of the School and then move on to his theoretical achievements.

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Focus: Logic and Philosophy in Poland
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European Review , Volume 23 , Issue 1 , February 2015 , pp. 105 - 113
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© Academia Europaea 2015 

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