THE CONCEPTION OF MEANING IN KAZIMIERZ TWARDOWSKIS PHILOSOPHY

Kazimierz Twardowski used to write about meaning although he never presented an exhaustive conception of it. One could distinguish two stages in his work: psychological and anti-psychological. In the first period meaning was understood as a particular psychological product (an element of consciousness), while in the latter - as something we get to by the way of abstracting from particular products. Although many philosophers consider Twardowski to be a representative of psychologism, despite an apparent evolution of his views, there are premises that point to a considerable change in his views concerning the conception of meaning. The author of the article sets out to attain two objectives: a reconstruction of the views on the question of meaning belonging to the founder of the Lvov-Warsaw School as well as an attempt to answer the question about the existential status of meanings.