Two philosophers in zadar — P. Bottura and J. Pulić about language

Abstract

There was a number of even world known philosophers who worked in Zadar in the 19th century. These were: Bottura, Putić, Politeo, Nađ i A. Petrić. On the occasion of the anniversary of tne Liberal Arts faculty in Zadar which actually is a succesor od the Zadar high school and lycée from the 19th century the people here remembered at least Iwo eminent philosophers from those times who were in some way the founders of these organizations. These philosophers were P. Bottura and J. Pulić, the teachers in the mentioned schools in Zadar. Our aim is to point out the similarities in the lives of P. Bottura who taught in Zadar and was the headmaster of the high school and lycée and J. Pulić who studied in Zadar and latter replaced Bottura as the headmaster ol the high school. It is shown that both of them were highly estimated by one of the greatest intellectuals in Dalmatia. N. Tomaseo. They ware given equal honors posthumously. But their interest in language was different. Bottura was interested in language, as he said himself, in order to apply philosophy to grammar which actually was an attempt to found logical linguistics. Pulić was primarily interested in language from the standpoint of the analytical procedures in research as it is done today in the philosophy of science. The author stresses Bottura’s activites in relation to the contemporary philosophy of language and linguistics while Pullć’s contribution is stressed in relation to Peirce’s invention of retroduction as a method in scientific discovery procedures.