Leśniewski, Tarski and the Axioms of Mereology

Authors
Publication date 2014
Host editors
  • K. Mulligan
  • K. Kijania-Placek
  • T. Placek
Book title The History and Philosophy of Polish Logic
Book subtitle Essays in Honour of Jan Woleński
ISBN
  • 9781137030900
  • 9781349440634
ISBN (electronic)
  • 9781137030894
Series History of Analytic Philosophy
Pages (from-to) 242-258
Publisher Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract Alongside a respect for philosophically informed formal work and an interest in all things Polish, Jan Woleński and I share a profound admiration for Leśniewski’s oeuvre. As Jan once told me, you can work on Leśniewski for your whole life. Indeed so. Eighteen years after I first met him, on a morning in late March at a bus stop in Sucha Bezkidzka, Southern Poland, here’s a story about the axioms of Leśniewski’s mereology, and Tarski’s complicated role in it.
Document type Chapter
Language English
Published at
https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137030894_12 (Final published version)
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