Reism

Reism or concretism is a philosophical theory of Tadeusz Kotarbiński, based on the ontology of Stanislaw Lesniewski, specifically, his "calculus of names".

In ontological sense, reism was condensed by Kotarbiński to the two postulates

• "every object is a body", i.e., all abstract concepts are to be reduced to concrete objects.
• no object is a state or relation, or property.

In semantical sense, it is a theory of language which draws a distinction between "real" names, i.e., names associated with bodies and pseudo-names, onomatoids, which denote states, relations, properties, events, etc. It further elaborates on when a sentence is meaningful, when it has a literal, direct sense or when it is meaningful or has an indirect sense.

External links

• Jan Wolenski. "Reism". In Zalta, Edward N. (ed.). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Tadeusz Kotarbinski, at the Polish Philosophy Page
• Tadeusz Kotarbinski from Ontological Reism to Semantical Concretism