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Tadeusz Kotarbiński, a representative of the famous Lvov-Warsaw School of Logic was the founder of praxiology: the science of efficient action. He began to form it in the period of his philosophical studies at the University of Lvov, before the First World War. He continued to form praxiology, also known as the logic of action, till the last years of his life. The fullest exposition of it appeared in his book A Treatise on Good Work (1955a) which was translated into many languages, and whose English translation (1965) was entitled Praxiology: An Introduction to the Science of Efficient Action. Besides this, he wrote many works on metapraxiology — projecting its contents and expanding the problem connected with praxiology. He lectured on praxiology at the University of Warsaw, and my opinions are based not only on my knowledge of his written, but also on his lectures and on my memories of his seminars and the problems discussed there. The subject of this discussion is the philosophical and methodological assumptions of the theory of efficient action.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2097-2_10

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