Background
Warty, Anton was born on October 18, 1857 in Schwyz, Switzerland.
Warty, Anton was born on October 18, 1857 in Schwyz, Switzerland.
From 1869, Professor of Philosophy. Schwyzer Lyzeum; 1875-1880, Professor of hilosophy. University of Czernowitz.
1880— y13, Professor of Philosophy, German Univers,‘y of Prague.
Marty has sometimes been described as Brentano s Minister for Language. Although he was sometimes critical of his former teacher and more independent than this description implies. Marty was closely associated with Brentano for forty years. Moreover his theory of language was based upon Brentano’s empirical psychology and he adopted his teacher’s classification of psychic phenomena. At the same time he rejected Brentano’s view of mental objects. To do this he appealed to the Aristotelian distinction between objects that ‘exist’ and what is ‘real’. On that view mental objects such as distinctions could be said to exist without having to concede to them any reality. Although he also wrote on the nature of space and time. Marty’s philosophy of language represents his most important contribution. His new theory of grammar is comparable in some respects with the transformational grammar of Chomsky, and his causal theory of meaning has been compared to that of Grice. Although these comparisons constitute rediscoveries. Marty had some influence in his time on Twardowski and, through him. on the Lvov Warsaw School. Sources: Edwards; Mittelstrass: Burkhardt.