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Andrzej Pietruszczak

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The calculus of names -- The legacy of Jan Łukasiewicz

With his research on Aristotle's syllogistic, Jan Łukasiewicz (1934, 1939, 1957, 1963) initiates the branch of logic known as the calculus of names. This field deals with axiomatic systems that analyse various fragments of the logic of names, i.e., that branch of logic that studies various forms of names and functors acting on them, as well as logical relationships between sentences in which these names and functors occur. In this work, we want not only to present the genesis of the calculus of names and its first system created by Łukasiewicz. We also want to deliver systems that extend the first. In this work, we will also show that, from the point of view of modern logic, Łukasiewicz's approach to syllogistic is not the only possible one. However, this does not diminish Łukasiewicz's role in the study of syllogism. We believe that the calculus of names is undoubtedly the legacy of Łukasiewicz.

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Different Theories of Parts

Stanisław Leśniewski's mereology was formulated in a specific way, deviating from standard formalizations. Nowadays, Leśniewski's theory is presented in the form of an elementary theory or translated into the language of the theory of relational structures. In this article, firstly, we look at existentially neutral theories, in which we do not postulate the existence of any other collective sets than those obtained from the definition and the basic properties of the relation of being a part. We also examine some existentially involved theories of parts. Among them, there is Grzegorczykian mereology and Leśniewskian mereology. One of the main principles of mereology is the transitivity of the concept of being a part of. This property is often questioned in the literature on the subject. In the final part, we present problems related to the transitivity of this concept.

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