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Koło Wiedeńskie. Podstawowe założenia i próba krytyki
The Vienna Circle. Basic assumptions and a critique attempt

Author(s): Rafał Tryścień
Subject(s): Metaphysics, Logic
Published by: Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Łodzi
Keywords: Vienna Circle; logical positivism; verification; Schlick; Carnap; the principle of verification;

Summary/Abstract: The works of the Vienna Circle introduced a new era. Radical thoughts thatwere supposed to consolidate the existing empirical science and remove all metaphys-ics in order to build a real, scientific philosophy proved to be a mistake. The radical as-sumptions led to absurd conclusions. The Vienna Circle was guided by the principle ofverification which sought to establish whether a sentence was meaningful or not. Yet thisprinciple was not free of the assumptions that it was supposed to indirectly remove –metaphysical assumptions. In this article, I present the views of the Vienna Circle that areoften overlooked in various publications. The central point of the text will be an attemptto discuss the criticism of the Vienna Circle’s assumptions.

  • Issue Year: 2/2023
  • Issue No: 24
  • Page Range: 125-145
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish
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