Letter to Kazimierz Twardowski written 30.03.1920

Author Roman Ingarden

Category outgoing correspondence, Polish researchers

Archive Joined Libraries WFiS UW, IFiS PAN and PTF

Date of creation 30.03.1920

Related places Warsaw

Reference code in archive PTF Rps 02.1, t. XII

Resource type letter

Subject matter academic issues, personal issues, publication issues

Field philosophy

Tags #apology, #clarity of philosophical style, #David Einhorn, #Easter, #Easter wishes, #Einhorn's article, #health problems, #illegibility of a letter, #illness, #Kazimierz Twardowski, #movement, #Movement bibliography, #Movement pages reservation, #On Logical Education, #Philosophical Movement, #request, #response to an article, #response to Einhorn, #Roman Ingarden, #Twardowski's article, #Warsaw, #wishes

Warsaw 30/3/1920
Złota 41 apt. 4

Honourable Professor!

Yesterday evening I received the latest issue of Movement [Philosophical Movement] with Mr Einhorn[O1] ’s article criticising my modest remarks à propos the clarity of philos. style. I greatly regret that I was given no opportunity to become acquainted with this article prior to printing so that my response might appear in the same issue as Einhorn’s article itself. I believe that, given its disrespectful, distasteful tone and veneer of scholarship, in conjunction with the worthlessness of the arguments cited in this article (a series of contradictions, attributing statements to me which I never published, even ad hominen arguments!), my response should have been found directly on the following pages of this issue. Otherwise, an individual whose statements are subject to criticism written in such a manner is undoubtedly disadvantaged in the eyes of the significant group of readers who haven’t yet achieved the mental development to independently weigh the worth and form of the eductions they’ve read.

Mr Einhorn’s article is, as it were, a lively illustration of the errors you cited in your article entitled ‘On Logical Education’.

I’d ask you, then, to reserve several pages for me (I suppose that you have 1 or 2 pages available) in the next issue of Movement, not so much for the purpose of responding to Mr Einhorn as for that of exposing the essential worthlessness of his arguments to the readers. I would send remarks on this subject forthwith. Unfortunately, however, I’ve been ill for a week (rather severe bronchitis), and was and still am feverish; as a result, my weakness doesn’t permit me to write any longer in bed. Accordingly, I’ll send my remarks ‒ if not prevented by any related complications ‒ during the week after Easter ‒ whereas for now, I am asking only that you reserve a place for me in the next issue of Movement.

I take the liberty of sending ‘Happy Easter’ wishes, and enclose expressions of true respect

Roman Ingarden

I apologise for the illegibility of this letter, but writing while lying in bed is no easy task.

I have found, to my great satisfaction, that some sections of the bibliography included in Movement have begun to be sorted in alphabetical order of the authors’ names. Wouldn’t it be possible to do this as well in other sections?

[O1]Prawdopodobnie Dawid Einhorn (lub Ejnhorn) (1886-1973)