Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.52685/pihfb.51.2(102).11
Logic, Words, and Representations
Dušan Dožudić
orcid.org/0000-0001-7322-402X
; Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
This paper accompanies and introduces the English translation of Franjo Marković’s text “Of Words” – a section from his manuscript Logic. The paper has two principal aims. First, it draws attention to several themes that Marković discusses throughout the first part of Logic – the part immediately preceding the section “Of Words” – which I take to be important for a better appreciation of that section. I focus on Marković’s understanding of logic itself, and how, according to him, it relates to psychology on the one hand, and to language and grammar on the other. I also consider Marković’s account of concept and representations important to logic, and I compare his views with those of Gottlob Frege. Second, I draw attention to some of the issues that Marković addresses in the section “Of Words” and relate them to the themes discussed previously – such as negative names, absolute names, and Marković’s criticism of Heymann Steinthal’s view of logic. The paper opens with a brief biographical sketch of Marković and concludes with remarks concerning the English translation of the section that follows.
Keywords
Concepts; Frege Gottlob; logic; Marković Franjo; ordinary language; representations; words
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340996
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Publication date:
15.12.2025.
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