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The Lvov-Warsaw School: A True Mythology

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The Lvov-Warsaw School. Past and Present

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I discuss various aspects of the Lvov-Warsaw School: its past, present and future; its location, evolution, mathematics; the variety of its members. I develop this analysis on the basis of my 25-year experience with Poland.

Dedicated to Jan Zygmunt, my host during my first stay in Poland, Wrocław, 1992–93

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Notes

  1. 1.

    I have consulted many books and papers, among them: 4,5,6, 31, 43, 48, 49, 55, 57, 62, 65,66,67, 75, 77, 89, 92, 93, 95, 99, 102 and others also quoted in the list of references of this paper, which gathers the main works on the topic.

  2. 2.

    A systematic paper on that was published in Logique et Analyse [32] and a more philosophical note [33], related to the talk I presented in Bahía Blanca was published in the same proceedings as Surma’s paper; see also Loparic and da Costa’s paper reprinted in the anthology of universal logic [21] with my comments.

  3. 3.

    See about this, one of Suszko’s papers reprinted in the anthology of universal logic [21], with comments by Ramon Jansana and my paper “La logique abstraite au sein de la mathématique moderne” [9].

  4. 4.

    She later on committed suicide and I dedicated to her a paper I wrote on suicide [11]. When in Poland I visited Auschwitz and this was a terrific experience.

  5. 5.

    See our recent paper “Is logical relativity irrational?” in a special issue of Studia Metodologiczne dedicated to Ajdukiewicz [25].

  6. 6.

    Stan Surma recalls this time in a film we did with him in Xi’an. In Warsaw there were important seminars directed by Andrzej Mostowski, Helena Rasiowa and Zdisław Pawlak. To know more about that period, see [37], [85], [90].

  7. 7.

    I recently defended the idea that anti-classical logic, the complementary of classical logic, can be considered as a logic in view in particular of the theory of refutation initiated by Łukasiewicz. Anti-classical logic is a concrete example of a logic obeying none of Tarski’s axioms; See [27].

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Thanks to Jan Zygmunt, Newton da Costa, Jan Woleński, Roman Murawski, Katarzyna Gan Krzywoszyńska, Pierre Cartier, Suasan Gómez, Vladimir Vsyukov, Urszula Wybraniec-Skardowska and Rober Purdy for information, photos, comments and remarks.

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Beziau, JY. (2018). The Lvov-Warsaw School: A True Mythology. In: Garrido, Á., Wybraniec-Skardowska, U. (eds) The Lvov-Warsaw School. Past and Present. Studies in Universal Logic. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65430-0_55

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