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Letter from Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz written 30.06.1937

Author Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz
Category incoming correspondence, Polish researchers
Archive Ingarden Family archives
Date of creation 30.06.1937
Related places Vienna
Reference code in archive ARI
Copyrights all rights reserved
Resource type letter
Subject matter academic issues, personal issues
Field phenomenology, philosophy
Tags #? Baylis, #? Nelson, #academic work, #aggresive tone, #aggression, #brochure, #Brown Univeristy, #Clarence Irving Lewis, #Cooper H. Langford, #Diodor Kronos, #Filon, #five of antifilonists, #hypotheses, #hypothesis, #John Lewis, #jokes, #Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, #Maria Kokoszyńska, #ontology, #Petrus Hispanus, #Philosophical Quarterly, #Roman Ingarden, #Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, #Symbolic Logic, #Vienna, #Witkacy, #Zetka

30.VI 1937
Honoured and dear Professor:
Thank you for the card which “emanates” something that I cannot quite grasp. I release my intuition:
Hypotesis I. / just a serious lack of time and the so-called “busyness”
H.II. / Discouragement towards me because of the overly aggressive tone of my philosophical letter and because of my reducing the distance too much.
I cross out these hypotheses.
H.III / The period of completely new experiences in your life related to the so-called second youth, leading to g[reat] creativity in the sphere of ontology.
I exclude intrigues in advance. (But why do you programmatically avoid writing about Ajdukiewicz?) Kokoszyńska’s booklet about Vienna is great (the copy from Phil[osophical]  Quarterly magazine, vol. 13th, pamph[lets] 1 and 2, 1937). She keeps them by the throat but does not fully throttle. Unfortunately, due to the fact that I published in Zetka on Filo’s implications ahead of you, I cannot include you in the famous “five” of primary antitfilonists (Urantifilonisten), because for me (of course) the company closes with me (Diodor Kronos, Petrus Hispanus, Prautl, Lewis and I); you have “joined” later – too bad. But in “Monist” Vol. XLI N 3 July 1937 there is an article by some Baylis (Brown University), who also quotes some prof. Nelson. They are “our people”. I’m joking. I am reading Lewis and Langford’s ‘Symbolic Logic’. Lewis [is] a wonderful guy – the only nice logistician and such a “soul mate”.
I enclose words of respect and affection. F.G. [family greetings]

     n         Witkacy.

 

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