The Nature of Metaphysical ThinkingMacmillan & Company Limited, 1945 - 238 pages |
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... scientific explanation seeks to make its world intelligible . Working science is incurably realist ; and the very suggestion that scientific results can be obtained by the " self - development " of ideas is generally repugnant to the ...
... scientific explanation seeks to make its world intelligible . Working science is incurably realist ; and the very suggestion that scientific results can be obtained by the " self - development " of ideas is generally repugnant to the ...
Page 96
... scientific thought . Such models suggest a possible picture by which our imaginations may grasp a mode of connection otherwise only expressible in the abstract form of mathematical formulae . It may be that , given the state of scientific ...
... scientific thought . Such models suggest a possible picture by which our imaginations may grasp a mode of connection otherwise only expressible in the abstract form of mathematical formulae . It may be that , given the state of scientific ...
Page 99
... scientific thought , where they do not properly belong , and where they should be displaced by the purely symbolic concepts of functional relation , mass , number , law , etc. I have questioned whether it is possible to divest ourselves ...
... scientific thought , where they do not properly belong , and where they should be displaced by the purely symbolic concepts of functional relation , mass , number , law , etc. I have questioned whether it is possible to divest ourselves ...
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A. N. WHITEHEAD absolute abstract awareness becomes called Cassirer categorical proposition character claim co-ordinated coherence concepts concerned concrete universal conscious constructions Cosmological Argument depends Descartes described developed distinction drawn elements empirical ence existence express fact faith forms of thought function Gestalt Gestalt theory Hegel Hence human idealism idealist ideas intellectual interpretation intrinsic nature judgments of importance kind knowledge logical mathematical matter mean merely metaphysical analogies metaphysical theory mind mode models naïve realism natural theology neo-orthodox notion objects organism pattern percipient activity perspective phenomenal phenomenalist philosophy physical feelings physiological possible prehension presuppositions principle Professor Professor Price propositions question realissimum reality relation relationship religion religious symbolism response revelation scientific scientific models seek sensations sense data sense perception sensory significant spirit structure suggest symbolic forms theologian things Thomist Thomist philosophy tion total assertion tradition transcendent truth universe Whitehead whole word