Logic, semantics and cognition

the epistemology of Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz

pp. 199-223

in: Jan Woleński, Logic and philosophy in the Lvov—Warsaw school, Berlin, Springer, 1989

Abstract

Ajdukiewicz treated cognitive processes as inseparably connected with language: we always think in some language, and our statements are meanings which are attributes of sentences in some language L. Hence cognition, or, to put it more rigorously, cognition as a product, can be identified with the meaning of sentences. This is the essential methodological intention of Ajdukiewicz's semantic epistemology.