Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

(1890 -- 1963 ), Polish philosopher and logician , author of a radically anti-empiricist theory of meaning. Studied in Lvov and Göttingen. Professor at Lvov, Warsaw, and Poznan. Ajdukiewicz was an eminent representative of the Polish variety of analytical philosophy. In a series of studies published in Erkenntnis in 1934 -- 5 (Sprache und Sinn , Das Weltbild und die Begriff-sapparatur , Die wissenschaftliche Welt-perspektive ) he elaborated a formal theory of coherent and closed languages which, unless they are exact copies of each other, are utterly untranslatable, so that no proposition accepted in one of Continue reading the remaining 60% ...