Background
Hegenberg, Leonidas Helmut Baebler was born in 1925 in Curitiba, Brazil.
Hegenberg, Leonidas Helmut Baebler was born in 1925 in Curitiba, Brazil.
Director of Humanities, Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica, S. José dos Campos.
Hegenbcrg's work is concentrated in the areas of mathematics, logic and the philosophy of science, although his interest in the meaning of key terms within the context of scientific theories has led him to an interest in the issue of meaning in general, outside formal languages. With regard to the philosophy of science, he argues that it is better regarded as the ‘logic of science’, and in his view its central topics are: the types of result obtained from scientific enquiry; the logical relations obtaining between these results; the types of proposition in which these results are formulated; and the way in which these terms are used systematically, in theories and laws. The logic of science cannot be fruitfully studied, in Hegenbcrg's view, without a solid grounding in mathematics, notably in the areas of functions and probability.