Benedykt Bornstein's philosophy of logic and mathematics

Roman Murawski

pp. 549-558

in: Axiomathes 24 (4), 2014.

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to present and discuss main philosophical ideas concerning logic and mathematics of a significant but forgotten Polish philosopher Benedykt Bornstein. He received his doctoral degree with Kazimierz Twardowski but is not included into the Lvov–Warsaw School of Philosophy founded by the latter. His philosophical views were unique and quite different from the views of main representatives of Lvov–Warsaw School. We shall discuss Bornstein's considerations on the philosophy of geometry, on the infinity, on the foundations of set theory and his polemics with Stanisław Leśniewski as well as his conception of a geometrization of logic, of the categorial logic and of the mathematics of quality.

Cited authors

Twardowski Kazimierz

Leśniewski Stanisław

Bornstein Benedykt