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Leśniewski's analysis of Whitehead's theory of events.

1966; Duke University Press; Volume: 7; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1305/ndjfl/1093958748

1939-0726

Vito F. Sinisi,

Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence

Logic prescribes the shapes of metaphysical thought. 1 (Whitehead)Stanislaw Lesniewski (1886-1939) was a leading member of the famous Warsaw school of logicians which flourished between the two Wars.The works of Lejewski and Sobocinski have made many readers of this journal familiar with Lesniewski's three systems of logic: protothetίc, ontology, and mereology.What does not seem to be generally known is that in the course of setting forth mereology [1]: Lesniewski proved that A. N. Whitehead's axiomatic basis for the concept of event is an inadequate foundation for Whitehead's theory of events.The purpose of this note is to recapitulate Lesniewski's analysis (available only in Polish) of Whitehead's theory of events.Perhaps a knowledge of this analysis will be of value* not only to those interested in Lesniewski's work but to that growing number of philosophers concerned with White head's metaphysics and philosophy of science.