This paper is about nonclassical theories of truth in Poland at the beginning of the 20th century, both in the Lvov-Warsaw School and outside of it. I shall concentrate on two philosophical approaches which in my opinion are interesting but not commonly known most likely because the relevant papers were written only in Polish: Władysław Biegański’s, whose theory is based on biological evolutionism, and Edward Poznański and Aleksander Wundheiler’s theory of truth in physics.
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Kijania-Placek, K. (2009). Nonclassical Conceptions of Truth in Polish Philosophy at the Beginning of the 20th Century. In: Lapointe, S., Wolénski, J., Marion, M., Miskiewicz, W. (eds) The Golden Age of Polish Philosophy. Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2401-5_14
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