ISBN: 9781235520945

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907. Excerpt: ... The Journal Of Philosophy Psychology And Scientific Methods THE ATTACK ON DISTINCTIONS TO discover differences and contrasts between things that resemble each other and to find points of similarity between dissimilar things are two kinds of mental activity which, although they appear opposite and contrary, are often found united. To employ them by turns is no less indispensable to progress in any kind of knowledge than are the two opposite movements of a piston to the rotation of the wheel which it sets in motion. Their relative importance, however, varies in the different fields of research, and as there are sciences, or phases of scientific development, in which the first predominates, so there are others in which the tendency prevails to distinguish or establish oppositions and contrasts among facts instead of connections or analogies. It may be asked into which of the two classes in particular do the speculations of philosophers fall? If the scholastic precept Distingue frequenter seems to assign in these greater importance to the determination of differences, on the other hand the usual conception of philosophy as the search for the highest generalities, the universal, the absolute, etc., would seem to justify a diametrically opposite conclusion. And of this latter conclusion it may be thought that we have further confirmation when, instead of attending to what philosophers have told us of their doings, we proceed to examine what they have actually done or are wont to do. As a matter of fact, the form under which results of philosophical inquiries appear to us is not that of the recognition or determination of fresh distinctions and differences, but, on the contrary, that of the criticism or rejection of distinctions commonly admitted. Before drawi... Jstor, Books, Religion and Spirituality, The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods (Volume 4 ) Books>Religion and Spirituality, General Books LLC<

ISBN: 9781235520945

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustra… More...

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907. Excerpt: ... The Journal Of Philosophy Psychology And Scientific Methods THE ATTACK ON DISTINCTIONS TO discover differences and contrasts between things that resemble each other and to find points of similarity between dissimilar things are two kinds of mental activity which, although they appear opposite and contrary, are often found united. To employ them by turns is no less indispensable to progress in any kind of knowledge than are the two opposite movements of a piston to the rotation of the wheel which it sets in motion. Their relative importance, however, varies in the different fields of research, and as there are sciences, or phases of scientific development, in which the first predominates, so there are others in which the tendency prevails to distinguish or establish oppositions and contrasts among facts instead of connections or analogies. It may be asked into which of the two classes in particular do the speculations of philosophers fall? If the scholastic precept Distingue frequenter seems to assign in these greater importance to the determination of differences, on the other hand the usual conception of philosophy as the search for the highest generalities, the universal, the absolute, etc., would seem to justify a diametrically opposite conclusion. And of this latter conclusion it may be thought that we have further confirmation when, instead of attending to what philosophers have told us of their doings, we proceed to examine what they have actually done or are wont to do. As a matter of fact, the form under which results of philosophical inquiries appear to us is not that of the recognition or determination of fresh distinctions and differences, but, on the contrary, that of the criticism or rejection of distinctions commonly admitted. Before drawi... Jstor, Books, Religion and Spirituality, The Journal of Philosophy, Psychology and Scientific Methods (Volume 4 ) Books>Religion and Spirituality <

2012, ISBN: 9781235520945

Softcover, Buch, [PU: General Books]

2012, ISBN: 9781235520945

Softcover, Buch, [PU: General Books]