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Truth, Concept Empiricism,
and the Realism of Polish
Phenomenology
Arkadiusz
Chrudzimski
University of Szczecin & University of Salzburg
Abstract.
The majority of Polish
phenomenologists never found Husserl’s transcendental idealism
attractive. In this paper I investigate the source of this rather
surprising realist attitude. True enough the founder of Polish
phenomenology was Roman Ingarden – one of the most severe critics of
Husserl’s transcendental idealism, so it is initially tempting to reduce
the whole issue to this sociological fact. However, I argue that there
must be something more about Ingarden’s intellectual background that
immunized him against Husserl’s transcendental argumentation, and that
the same background made his students so sympathetic to his “naive”
realism. My claim is that this “something” is Ingarden’s realist concept
of truth that he learned (at least partially) from Tarski as opposed to
Husserl’s epistemic construal that he took from Brentano.
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