ABSTRACT
In this chapter, Peter Olen traces an influence of early European analytic philosophy on Sellars. In his paper “The Scientific World-Perspective”, which was translated from German into English by Sellars, the Polish logician and philosopher Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz (1890-1963) argues that every meaningful language contains what he calls a “world-perspective”. This thought is picked up and further developed by Sellars in his earliest publications, where he argues that meaningful languages have to contain a “world-story”. In later publications, Olen argues, this thought is not given up, but is later supplemented by Sellars’s idea of “picturing”.
