Wybrane zagadnienia psychologizmu lingwistycznego Jana Baudouina de Courtenay i Karola Appla. Próba porównania
A comparative study of selected issues in Jan Baudouin de Courtenay’s and Karol Appel’s theories of linguistic psychologism

Summary/Abstract: This paper is an attempt to compare selected ontological, epistemological and methodological issues present in Jan Baudouin de Courtenay’s and Karol Appel’s scientific theories, which are considered representative of the so-called linguistic psychologism. These concepts are explained in light of the philosophical assumptions of W. von Humboldt, F. le Dantec and H. Vaihinger, which served as a direct inspiration for Polish scholars. Apart from pointing to a number of similarities, the author also enumerates and discusses significant differences in the understanding of the relationship between the subject and the object of cognition, the notion of reality, and the criteria of truth which prompt the question of the possibility of defining psychologism as a scientific paradigm.

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