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The History and Philosophy of Polish Logic
Essays in Honour of Jan Wole?ski
K. Mulligan,K. Kijania-PLacek,T. Placek,Kenneth A. Loparo
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The History and Philosophy of Polish Logic
Essays in Honour of Jan Wole?ski
K. Mulligan,K. Kijania-PLacek,T. Placek,Kenneth A. Loparo
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The book presents the state of the art of research into the legacy of interwar Polish analytic philosophy and exemplifies different approaches to the history of philosophy. It contains discussions and reconstructions of aspects of Polish philosophy and logic as well as reactions to and developments of this tradition.
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Histoire et théorie de la philosophiePart I
Logic, Proof and Models
1
Many-valued Logic in Poland: The Golden Age
Alexander S. Karpenko
1.1 Introduction
The origin of many-valued logic was closely connected with the Lvov-Warsaw School (LWS) (see WoleĆski, 1985). Here is an amazing case of the emergence of one of the most influential scientific schools in the world, which is famous for its research in philosophy and especially in logic.
1895 is considered to be the year of foundation of the LWS, when K. Twardowski (1866â1938) got a chair at Lvov University. Poland as an independent state did not exist at that point in history, for after three partitions it was completely torn into three parts: an Austrian one, a Prussian one and a Russian one (1772â95). The state was restored in 1919 by the Versailles agreement. The second period in the development of the school began just after that restoration. Quite paradoxically, despite the non existence of a Polish state, the conditions for the emergence of the above-mentioned scientific school were in place and thus the emergence of the unique Warsaw school of logic headed by J. Ćukasiewicz (1878â1956) and S. LeĆniewski (1886â1939) was possible. J. WoleĆski, the main specialist on the LWS, writes: âThe Second World War and the events that followed, first of all the presence of Poland in the âsocialist campâ where Marxism was the official state philosophy, had led to the disappearance of Lvov-Warsaw school as an organized philosophical movement.â (WoleĆski, 2004a, p. 456) Nevertheless it should be noted that the level of development of logic in Poland remains very high. In another work WoleĆski (2010) writes:
The logical achievements of the LWS became the most famous. Doubtless, the Warsaw school of logic contributed very much to the development of logic in the 20th century.1
Z. Jordan described the phenomenon of many-valued logic in the following manner (see the chapter V âThe Discovery of Many-Valued systems of Logicâ in Jordan, 1945/1967, p. 389):
Whatever value may be attached to the above-mentioned results, the discovery by Ćukasiewicz of many-valued systems of logic stands out against all of them. Without any doubt it is a discovery of the first order, eclipsing everything done in the field of logical research in Poland.
And in WoleĆski (1985, p. 119), see the whole chapter 6.2 âMany-Valued Logicsâ, we read: âThe construction of many-valued logical systems is commonly believed to have been one of the major achievements of the Warsaw School, and specifically of Ćukasiewicz.â
The early development of many-valued logic in Poland is considered in detail in WoleĆski (2001) especially from 1910 to 1920. WoleĆski (2001, p. 196) writes that âKotarbiĆski2 introduced into Poland the idea that there are sentences which are indefinite, that is, neither true nor falseâ, (see also WoleĆski, 1990). It is interesting that KotarbiĆski didnât mention it in chapter XXI, âMany-Valued Propositional Calculusâ of his book (1957) but criticized Ćukasiewiczâs three-valued logics for conceptual reasons.
The first mention of three-valued logic can be found in Ćukasiewiczâs lecture delivered in 1918. There, Ćukasiewicz says: âthat new logic [. . .] destroys the former concept of scienceâ; moreover, Ćukasiewicz makes a connection between the ânew logicâ and the âstruggle for the liberation of the human spiritâ (see Ćukasiewicz, 1918/1970, p. 86). One can say that passion for freedom led Ćukasiewicz to the discovery of three-valued logic.
Philosophical ideas underlying the third truth-value are discussed in Ćukasiewiczâs seminal paper âOn determinismâ (see Ćukasiewicz, 1922).3 There, Ćukasiewicz states that Aristotleâs solution of the problem of future contingency (the problem of logical fatalism) destroys one of the main principles of our logic, namely that every proposition is either true or false. Ćukasiewicz calls this principle the principle of bivalence. According to him, it is an underlying principle of logic that cannot be proved â one can only believe in it. Ćukasiewicz claims that the principle of bivalence does not seem self-evident to him. Therefore, he claims to have the right not to accept it and to stipulate that, along with truth and falsity, there should be at least one more truth-value, which Ćukasiewicz considers to be intermediate between the other two. Ćukasiewicz concludes that
If this third value is introduced into logic we change its very foundations. A trivalent system of logic [. . .] differs from ordinary bivalent logic, the only one known so far, as much as non-Euclidean systems of geometry differ from Euclidean geometry. (Ćukasiewicz, 1922/1970, p. 126)
Similar passages occur in other papers of Ćukasiewicz (up to 1951). Those claims foreshadowed a radical revision of the classical logic. Ćukasiewiczâs main philosophical conclusion is that determinism could be avoided by rejecting the principle of bivalence.4
1.2 Ćukasiewiczâs three-valued logic Ć3
The first system of three-valued logic appeared in Ćukasiewicz (1920). It means that for the first time three-valued logical connectives were defined and combined to form a logical system.
Adhering to the classical way of defining implication p â q and negation ~ p wherever their arguments are the classical truth-values 0 and 1, Ćukasiewicz defines the meaning of those connectives for the cases featuring his new truth-value in the following way:
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The other propositional connectives are defined by means of the primary connectives:
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Thus, the truth-tables for the logical connectives look as in Table 1:
A valuation is a function v from the set of formulae S to the set {0, Âœ,1} of truth-values, âcompatibleâ with the above truth-tables. A formula α is a tautology if and only if v(a) = 1 for every valuation v, where 1 is the designated value. The set of tautologies thus defined is Ćukasiewiczâs three-valued logic Ć3.
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Table des matiĂšres
- Cover
- Title
- Introduction: The History and Philosophy of Polish Logic: Some Basic Thoughts
- Part I Logic, Proof and Models
- Part II Truth and Concepts
- Part III Ontology, Mereology and the Philosophy of Mathematics
- A Selection of Jan WoleĆskiâs Publications
- Index for Names
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[author missing]. (2016). The History and Philosophy of Polish Logic ([edition unavailable]). Palgrave Macmillan UK. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3484855/the-history-and-philosophy-of-polish-logic-essays-in-honour-of-jan-woleski-pdf (Original work published 2016)
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[author missing]. (2016) 2016. The History and Philosophy of Polish Logic. [Edition unavailable]. Palgrave Macmillan UK. https://www.perlego.com/book/3484855/the-history-and-philosophy-of-polish-logic-essays-in-honour-of-jan-woleski-pdf.
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[author missing] (2016) The History and Philosophy of Polish Logic. [edition unavailable]. Palgrave Macmillan UK. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3484855/the-history-and-philosophy-of-polish-logic-essays-in-honour-of-jan-woleski-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).
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[author missing]. The History and Philosophy of Polish Logic. [edition unavailable]. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2016. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.