Volume 51 (1996), 6

The paper deals with Henri Poincaré’s approach to 19th century crisis in physics and philosophy. In the time, when old inquiries, especially in physics, were relativized by the new, especially physical ones, when new non-Euclidean geometry has been articulated and when the absolutistic theories of the universe were no more valid, Poincaré labeled scientific and… Read more

The operative approach in the theory of truth in Kamlah’s and Lorenzen’s Logische Propädeutik was an attempt to create a scientific language by means of critical reconstruction of ordinary language. In Kamlah’s and Lorenzen’s opinion, the proposition is true only when it is interpersonally verified: the predicator „true“ helps to introduce the predicator… Read more

The paper focuses on Kant’s analysis of university education system on the background of the historical condition of the 2nd half of the 18th century. Kant’s conception assumes an autonomous status of a university with no rights of the state power to intervene. He questiones the traditional organization of the university. He is in search for an answer to the… Read more