What Does Philosophy Owe to an Apostate of Philosophy?

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[In Russian]

The article is a historical account of some crucial philosophical investigations within the Lviv-Warsaw School and the assessment of Franz Brentano’s role, an «apostate of philosophy», in inspiring these investigations. Brentano sought to overcome the gap between philosophy and science and, subsequently, between philosophical method and scientific method. By medium of Kazimierz Twardowski, Brentano’s approach to method was, in its main aspects, inherited by the whole Lviv-Warsaw School. In connection with this approach, a number of further problems emerged: what is the role of natural language in science, is it apt to philosophizing, how to avoid terminological chaos on the one hand and pragmatically unjustified «symbolomania» on the other? In the article some tentative solutions, proposed by the theorists of the Lviv-Warsaw School, are concisely presented.