Volume 44 (1989), 5

In the paper general characteristics of the method as the way by means of which man follows (examines) the way along which the examined thing or region is going. Relations between ontological, gnoseological and methodological categories, and their impact upon the structure of the method, are analyzed.

In the paper the three basic kinds of understanding are analyzed: the reconstruction of the social significance and the person’s meaning of things and beings incorporated in the structure of human activity; the reconstruction of the sense and significance of the very human activity as the sense-giving substance; the reconstruction of social memory, fixed in… Read more

In the paper differences and connections between the understanding and explanation in social sciences are analyzed. Presuming their complementarity, the difference between description and explanation is fixed whereby general methodological and philosophical reflections are supported by concrete historiographic material. In this sphere of facts it is also… Read more

In the paper the boundaries of one philosophical-logical-linguistic tradition are outlined, of the one which has been formed within two and a half thousand years of interest of thinkers in the language and its philosophical problems. The paper investigates the validity of the thesis that the anthropoligacl cultural space in which ethnical languages have been… Read more

In the paper main characteristics of Goodman’s philosophy are analyzed: nominalism, constructivism,, relativism and pluralism. The author shows Goodman’s attitude to physicalism and phenomenalism, he analyzes basic operations of worldmaking. The radicalism of Goodman’s relativism and pluralism is documented in his way of using concepts „world“ and „version“. The… Read more