Eugeniusz Grodziński (January 10, 1912,

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– October 11, 1994,

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) was a Polish

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, whose principal interests were philosophy of natural language, philosophical foundations of

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, and philosophical problems of

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. He was born as Yefim Grodziński in

, studied law, and in 1957 (during the

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) emigrated from

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, the

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. Until his retirement, he was a professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology (IFiS) of the

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Books

* Grodziński, E. 1969. ''Język, metajęzyk, rzeczywistość''. Warszawa, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe * Grodziński, E. 1978. ''Monizm a dualizm : z dziejów refleksji filozoficznej nad myśleniem i mową''. Wrocław : Państwowa Akademia Nauk; OSSOLINEUM * Grodziński, E. 1985. ''Językoznawcy i logicy o synonimach i synonimii : studium z pogranicza dwóch nauk''. Wrocław : Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich * Grodziński, E. 1988. ''Koryfeusze nie są nieomylni : szkice polemiczne''. Wrocław : Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich * Grodziński, E. 1986. ''Myślenie hipotetyczne : studium na pograniczu ontologii, filozofii języka i psychologii''. Wrocław : Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich * Grodziński, E. 1983. ''Paradoksy semantyczne''. Wrocław : Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich * Grodziński, E. 1980. ''Wypowiedzi performatywne : z aktualnych zagadnień filozofii języka''. Wrocław : Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich. * Grodziński, E. 1983. ''Zarys ogólnej teorii imion własnych''. Wrocław : Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich * Grodziński, E. 1981. ''Zarys teorii nonsensu'' (An outline of the theory of nonsense). Wrocław : Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich * Grodziński, E. 1964. ''Znaczenie słowa w języku naturalnym''. Warszawa, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe. * Grodziński, E. 1989. ''Filozoficzne podstawy logiki wielowartościowej''. Warszawa, Państwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe.

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1912 births 1994 deaths Soviet emigrants to Poland Jews from the Russian Empire 20th-century Polish philosophers People from Pskov {{Poland-academic-bio-stub