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Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science are devoted to
symposia, con gresses, colloquia, monographs and collected papers
on the philosophical foundations of the sciences. It is now our
pleasure to include A. A. Zi nov'ev's treatise on complex logic
among these volumes. Zinov'ev is one of the most creative of modern
Soviet logicians, and at the same time an innovative worker on the
methodological foundations of science. More over, Zinov'ev,
although still a developing scholar, has exerted a sub stantial and
stimulating influence upon his colleagues and students in Moscow
and within other philosophical and logical circles of the Soviet
Union. Hence it may be helpful, in bringing this present work to an
English-reading audience, to review briefly some contemporary
Soviet investigations into scientific methodology. During the
1950's, a vigorous new research program in logic was under taken,
and the initial published work -characteristic of most Soviet pub
lications in the logic and methodology of the sciences - was a
collection of essays, Logical Investigations (Moscow, 1959). Among
the authors, in addition to Zinov'ev himself, were the philosophers
A. Kol'man and P. V. Tavanec, and the mathematicians and linguists,
S. A. Janovskaja, A. S. Esenin-Vol'pin, S. K. Saumjan, G. N.
Povarov."
In this stimulating study of the logical character of selected
fundamental topics of physics, Zinov'ev has written the first, and
major, stage of a general semantics of science. In that sense he
has shown, by rigorous examples, that in certain basic and
surprising respects we may envision a reducibility of science to
logic; and further that we may detect and eliminate frequent
confusion of abstract and empirical objects. In place of a near
chaos of unplanned theoretical languages, we may look toward a
unified and epistemologically clarified general scientific
language. In the course of this work, Zinov'ev treats issues of
continuing urgency: the non-trivial import of Zeno's paradoxes; the
residually significant meaning of 'cause' in scientific
explanation; the need for lucidity in the conceptions of 'wave' and
'particle', and his own account of these; the logic of fields and
of field propagation; Kant's antimonies today; and, in a startling
aper u, an insightful note on 'measuring' consciousness. Logical
physics, an odd-appearing field of investigation, is a part of
logic; and as logic, logical physics deals with the linguistic
expressions of time, space, particle, wave, field, causality, etc.
How far this may be taken without explicit use of, or reference to,
empirical statements is still to be clarified, but Zinov'ev takes a
sympathetic reader well beyond a realist's expectation, beyond the
classical conventionalist. Zinov'ev presents his investigations in
four chapters and an appendix of technical elucidation.
In this stimulating study of the logical character of selected
fundamental topics of physics, Zinov'ev has written the first, and
major, stage of a general semantics of science. In that sense he
has shown, by rigorous examples, that in certain basic and
surprising respects we may envision a reducibility of science to
logic; and further that we may detect and eliminate frequent
confusion of abstract and empirical objects. In place of a near
chaos of unplanned theoretical languages, we may look toward a
unified and epistemologically clarified general scientific
language. In the course of this work, Zinov'ev treats issues of
continuing urgency: the non-trivial import of Zeno's paradoxes; the
residually significant meaning of 'cause' in scientific
explanation; the need for lucidity in the conceptions of 'wave' and
'particle', and his own account of these; the logic of fields and
of field propagation; Kant's antimonies today; and, in a startling
aper u, an insightful note on 'measuring' consciousness. Logical
physics, an odd-appearing field of investigation, is a part of
logic; and as logic, logical physics deals with the linguistic
expressions of time, space, particle, wave, field, causality, etc.
How far this may be taken without explicit use of, or reference to,
empirical statements is still to be clarified, but Zinov'ev takes a
sympathetic reader well beyond a realist's expectation, beyond the
classical conventionalist. Zinov'ev presents his investigations in
four chapters and an appendix of technical elucidation.
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science are devoted to
symposia, con gresses, colloquia, monographs and collected papers
on the philosophical foundations of the sciences. It is now our
pleasure to include A. A. Zi nov'ev's treatise on complex logic
among these volumes. Zinov'ev is one of the most creative of modern
Soviet logicians, and at the same time an innovative worker on the
methodological foundations of science. More over, Zinov'ev,
although still a developing scholar, has exerted a sub stantial and
stimulating influence upon his colleagues and students in Moscow
and within other philosophical and logical circles of the Soviet
Union. Hence it may be helpful, in bringing this present work to an
English-reading audience, to review briefly some contemporary
Soviet investigations into scientific methodology. During the
1950's, a vigorous new research program in logic was under taken,
and the initial published work -characteristic of most Soviet pub
lications in the logic and methodology of the sciences - was a
collection of essays, Logical Investigations (Moscow, 1959). Among
the authors, in addition to Zinov'ev himself, were the philosophers
A. Kol'man and P. V. Tavanec, and the mathematicians and linguists,
S. A. Janovskaja, A. S. Esenin-Vol'pin, S. K. Saumjan, G. N.
Povarov."
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