Logic, for Husserl as for his predecessor Bolzano, is a theory of science. Where Bolzano, however, conceives scientific theories very much in Platonistic terms, as collections of propositions existing outside […]
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“The first basic notion of Bolzano’s ontological system is the part relation. Its domain, i.e., the set of all objects bearing it to something, embraces concrete substances, abstract objects, and […]
“The Prague philosopher, Bernard Bolzano, in his major work The Theory of Science (1837), mainly in the last two of the four volumes, reserves much space for semiotics. The author […]
“The Wissenschaftslehre (1837) by Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) is one of the masterpieces in the history of logic. In this encyclopedic work Bolzano intended to construct a new and philosophically satisfactory […]
The main thesis contained in the Theory of Science consists in a clear distiction between psychology and logic. This work, as well as Bolzano’s other works on logic, was given […]
“Why look back now? Let me start by stating my non-historian’s view of the modem history of logic. Like many scientific disciplines, flourishes while being ill-defined. Despite textbook orthodoxy, the […]
“[Bolzano] composed his two main works from 1823 though 1841: the Wissenschaftslehre (4 vols., 1837) and the posthumous Grössenlehre. (…) Bolzano recognized a profound distinction between the actual thoughts and […]
“Bolzano’s philosophy is notable for its clarity and for his reliance on logical argument. This, his monadological metaphysics and his many-sidedness helped to earn him his sobriquet of ‘the Bohemian […]
“It is as logician, methodologist, and epistemologist that Bolzano, after a long period of neglect, regained philosophical attention in the twentieth century. Mainly in order to combat radical skepticism, he […]
“While the idealists were removing every trace of objectivity from Kant’s semantics, there was in a corner of the Austro-Hungarian empire, ignored by the leaders of German philosophy, a Czech […]