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The present selection from the Wissenschaftslehre (Sulzbach 1837)
of Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) aims at giving a compact view of his
main ideas in logic, semantics, epistemology and the methodology of
science. These ideas are analyzed from a modern point of view in
the Introduction. Furthermore, excerpts from Bolzano's
correspondence are included which yield important remarks on his
own work. The translation of the sections from the
Wissenschaftslehre are based on a German text, which I have located
in the Manuscript Department of the University Library in Prague
(signature: 75 B 459). It was one of Bolzano's own copies of his
printed work and contains a vast number of corrections made by
Bolzano himself, thus representing the final stage of his thought,
which has gone unnoticed in previous editions. The German originals
of Bolzano's letters to M. J. Fesl, J. P. Romang, R. Zimmermann and
F. Pi'ihonsky are in the Literary Archive of the Pamatnfk narodnfho
pfsemnictvf in Prague. The original of the letter to F. Exner
belongs to the Manuscript Department of the Osterreichische
Nationalbibliothek in Vienna. The original of the letter to J. E.
Seidel is preserved in the Museum of the City of Ceske Budejovice.
This book has arisen out of lectures I gave in recent years at the
Uni versities of Munich and Regensburg, and it is intended to serve
as a textbook for courses in the Philosophy of Language. In my
lectures I was able to presuppose that the students had taken an
introductory course in logic. Some knowledge of logic will also be
helpful in studying this book - as it is almost everywhere else in
philosophy -, especially in Section 3. 2, but it is no
prerequisite. I would like to give my sincere thanks to Prof.
Terrell for his excellent translation of the book, which is based
on the second, revised and en larged German edition. Regensburg,
May 1975 FRANZ VON KUTSCHERA INTRODUCTION Language has become one
of philosophy's most important and pressing themes during this
century. This preoccupation with language has its ori gins in the
most diverse areas of philosophical inquiry."
The present selection from the Wissenschaftslehre (Sulzbach 1837)
of Bernard Bolzano (1781-1848) aims at giving a compact view of his
main ideas in logic, semantics, epistemology and the methodology of
science. These ideas are analyzed from a modern point of view in
the Introduction. Furthermore, excerpts from Bolzano's
correspondence are included which yield important remarks on his
own work. The translation of the sections from the
Wissenschaftslehre are based on a German text, which I have located
in the Manuscript Department of the University Library in Prague
(signature: 75 B 459). It was one of Bolzano's own copies of his
printed work and contains a vast number of corrections made by
Bolzano himself, thus representing the final stage of his thought,
which has gone unnoticed in previous editions. The German originals
of Bolzano's letters to M. J. Fesl, J. P. Romang, R. Zimmermann and
F. Pi'ihonsky are in the Literary Archive of the Pamatnfk narodnfho
pfsemnictvf in Prague. The original of the letter to F. Exner
belongs to the Manuscript Department of the Osterreichische
Nationalbibliothek in Vienna. The original of the letter to J. E.
Seidel is preserved in the Museum of the City of Ceske Budejovice.
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