As a philosopher with a mathematical background, Husserl was interested in developing a general theory of inferential systems, which (following Bolzano) he conceived of as a theory of science, on […]
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Unity and Compatibility
The theory of dependence is of importance for logic as theory of science first of all because it is in the terms of this theory that the idea of unity […]
Logic as Theory of Science
One might, as a first approximation, regard a scientific theory as a multiplicity of acts of knowing, of verifyings and falsifyings, validatings and calculatings, on the part of successive generations […]
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 […]
Theory of Science
Science is part of knowledge, that part devoted to describing and understanding the universe. Complexity arises when we see knowledge as part of the universe, so science is part of […]
“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 […]
Where formal logic relates in the first place to meaning categories such as proposition, concept, subject and predicate, its sister discipline of formal ontology relates to object categories such as object and property, relation and relatum, manifold, part, whole, state of affairs, existence and so on
“Husserl’s work include lengthy treatment of universals, categories, meanings, numbers, manifolds, etc. from an ontological perspective. Here, however, we shall concentrate almost exclusively on the Logical Investigations, which contain in […]
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