Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Leon Gumański -- Preface / Leon Gumański -- The Elements of a Judgment and Existence / Leon Gumański -- Traditional Logic and Existential Presuppositions / Leon Gumański -- To Be or Not to Be? Is that the Question? / Leon Gumański -- Some Remarks on Definitions / Leon Gumański -- Logische und Semantische Antinomien / Leon Gumański -- A New Approach to Realistic Epistemology / Leon Gumański -- Ausgewählte Probleme der Deontischen Logik / Leon Gumański -- An Attempt at the Definition of the Biological Concept of Homology / Leon Gumański -- Similarity / Leon Gumański.

This volume may be of interest for all those who wish that philosophy had a scientific character. As an adherent of the Polish Lvov-Warsaw Philosophical School, the author of this collection of papers endeavours to clarify some basic notions of epistemology, ontology and psychology of cognitive acts, such as judgment, existence, being etc. In his investigations he refrains from unnecessary rejection of common-sense knowledge but at the same time searches for suitable patterns in contemporary sciences. Regarding formal logic as a fundamental tool for the precise expression and justification of thoughts, the author tries to clear logic from ontological commitments, shows how to construct logic of norms and how to use safely different definitions in research works. The book presents a new conception of antinomies and an innovatory approach to realistic epistemology. Moreover, some applications of logical methods are illustrated by examples of semantical analyses of the general notion of similarity and the biological concept of homology.

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