This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... THE METAPHYSICS OF SCIENCE. QICIENCE, taken in its modern and restricted sense, is - a knowledge of phenomena and of their orders of succession. Sensible phenomena are qualities or changes existing in relation to our faculty of external cognition. The relation is only that mode of existence, as to ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 edition. Excerpt: ... THE METAPHYSICS OF SCIENCE. QICIENCE, taken in its modern and restricted sense, is - a knowledge of phenomena and of their orders of succession. Sensible phenomena are qualities or changes existing in relation to our faculty of external cognition. The relation is only that mode of existence, as to time, place or nature, which awakens in us a consciousness of power exerted upon us, and a reference of the impression to an external phenomenon as its concomitant. Qualities or changes which exist without such relation are not phenomena capable of constituting material of human science. An order of succession or mode of sequence among phenomena may be cognized as invariable or variable. The following discussion, reproduced by permission, with certain changes and additions, from the Korth American Review for January 1880, is intended as a protest against the assumptions made by a certain school of modern science. The pretense that any valid science can be constituted out of purely empirical material is a claim which exerts a predisposing influence upon those who feel averse to abstract thinking; and it has acquired a temporary popularity through connection with certain brilliant reputations. But the reader is requested to note the fact tht the representatives of the school of scientific philosophy here criticised feel themselves irresistibly led, more and more as reflection is extended, into a recognition of those underlying principles of knowledge which, in their full application, vitiate the grounds of all purely empirical science He is reminded also that those representatives of science, either in the present or the past, who have created the most substantial and enduring reputations are those who have united the philosophic spirit with the...
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