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Nominalism in Poland

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Leśniewski’s Systems Protothetic

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Several prominent Polish philosophers were nominalists. This paper concentrates mainly on the views of Leśniewski and Kotarbiński, in the belief that their views are the most interesting in themselves, the most historically important, and present most clearly the difficulties and challenges that nominalism has to face. But first, some terminological clarifications.

Bibliographical Note. Reprinted from Polish Scientific Philosophy: The Lvov-Warsaw School. F. Coniglione, R. Poli, and J. Woleński, editors. Poznań Studies in the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Vol. 28, Editions Rodopi B.V., by permission of Rodopi.

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Simons, P.M. (1998). Nominalism in Poland. In: Srzednicki, J.T.J., Stachniak, Z. (eds) Leśniewski’s Systems Protothetic. Nijhoff International Philosophy Series, vol 54. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5736-0_1

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