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Ajdukiewicz and the Notion of Conceptual Apparatus

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
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 a…
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With and beyond Max Weber: The process of rationalisation

Franco Ferrarotti · Prof. Emeritus of La Sapienza University, Italy. Founde…
At the basis of the lasting, even growing, fascination of Max Weber as man and thinker there are probably two reasons. First, there is an essential reason: Weber tackles a central theme, still today at the heart of our concerns, and to which he returns in all his works, more or less directly - the n…
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A Limited View of Realism

Michele Marsonet · University of Genoa, Italy
In the paper we argue that no neat border line between ontology and epistemology can be drawn. This is due to the fact that the separation between factual and conceptual is rather fuzzy, and the world is characterized by a sort of ontological opacity which makes the construction of any absolute onto…