Ajdukiewicz and the Notion of Conceptual Apparatus

Abstract

The Polish philosopher Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz adopted the notion of “conceptual apparatus”, which is very similar to the idea of “conceptual scheme” put forward by Donald Davidson, Willard V. Quine, Nicholas Rescher and others. Ajdukiewicz’s theses are, in this regard, very important although less known, and he treated cognitive processes as inseparably connected with language.

Keywords

• language; conceptual apparatus; conceptual scheme; ontology; empiricism