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Name
  
Adam Mahrburg


Died
  
1913

Adam Mahrburg (1855–1913) was a Polish philosopher—the outstanding philosophical mind of Poland's Positivist period.

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Life

Adam Mahrburg was a philosopher and theoretician of knowledge. He taught in Warsaw's secret university and published in learned and popular journals.

He reduced philosophy to the theory of knowledge. He regarded science as a tool for ordering and anticipating phenomena and for effective action. He was an exponent of determinism.

Works

  • Teoria celowości ze stanowiska naukowego (The Theory of Purpose from a Scientific Standpoint, 1888),
  • Co to jest nauka (What Is Science? 1897)

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