The ways of things
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| Glavni autor: | Montague, William Pepperell, 1873-1953 (-) |
| Vrsta građe: | Knjiga |
| Jezik: | eng |
| Impresum: |
New York :
Prentice-Hall, Inc,
1940.
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| Nakladnička cjelina: |
Prentice-Hall philosophy series: A. E. Murphy, PH.D., editor
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| Predmet: |
Sadržaj:
- pt. 1. An introduction to philosophy: Foreword: Philosophy: its meaning affiliations, and divisions
- pt. 2. Experiments in philosophy: Prologue: The vision of philosophy
- Sect. 1. Formal logic: On the nature od induction
- A defense of causality
- The rainbow series and the logarithm of aleph null
- Sect. 2. Material logic: The antinomy and its implications for logical theory
- Sect. 3. Epistemology: The story of American realism
- Truth subsistential and existential
- Sect. 4. and Sect. 5. Metaphysics: Beyond physics
- The Einstein theory and a possible alternative
- A possible interpretation of the quantum
- A theory of time perception
- Time and the fourth dimension
- Substance, potentiality, and cause: a positivistic theory of rationalistic categories
- A materialistic theory of emergent evolution
- Variation, heredity, and consciousness
- Consciousness a form of energy
- Sect. 6. Theology: The Promethean challenge to religion
- The Trinity -a speculation
- The two immortalities
- Sect. 7. Esthetics: The true, the good, and the beautiful from a pragmatic standpoint
- Beauty is not all: an appeal for esthetic pluralism
- Sect. 8. Ethics: The philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
- The missing link in the case for utilitarianism
- The geometry of the good life
- Democracy at the crossroads
- Postscript: Confessions of an animistic materialist.