Ajdukiewicz on language change and truth

Tadeusz Czarnecki

pp. 131-149

in: Jaakko Hintikka, Tadeusz Czarnecki, Tomasz Placek, Artur Rojszczak (eds), Philosophy and logic in search of the Polish tradition, Berlin, Springer, 2003

Abstract

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

Cited authors

Ajdukiewicz Kazimierz