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    The Rational and the Real

    An Essay in Metaphysics

    Leslie Armour Ph.D. (1962)

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    The Problem and The Program

    This is an essay in metaphysics — an attempt to render an account of the nature of reality and an attempt of a special kind. It is not, like an essay in scientific cosmology, an attempt to come at a general ac...

    Leslie Armour Ph.D. in The Rational and the Real (1962)

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    Thought and the Self

    The conclusion of Chapter II — that, if we are to talk sense at all, we must suppose that reality contains “selves” or at least one “self” and that this “self” or these “selves” must be continuants and be free...

    Leslie Armour Ph.D. in The Rational and the Real (1962)

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    The Content of Experience

    I suppose we must ask the question: “What or what kinds of things do we experience ?” in the hope that the answer will throw some light on the question: “What kinds of experience are trustworthy?” The original...

    Leslie Armour Ph.D. in The Rational and the Real (1962)

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    Scepticism and the Self

    A metaphysician needs a starting point, a point of orientation. He also needs a standard defined in terms of a paradigm case from which he cannot and will not be pushed. In his search for these, he has been ha...

    Leslie Armour Ph.D. in The Rational and the Real (1962)

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    Thought and Reality

    The argument in Chapter III does, I think, re-enforce the conclusions of Chapter II but it must be admitted that it does seem to add to the air of mystery and, since this is not a detective story, it is incumb...

    Leslie Armour Ph.D. in The Rational and the Real (1962)

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    Conclusion

    The conclusions of the past seven chapters must stand or fall upon their own merits in their proper context. Pulled out of context and stated baldly here, they would, no doubt, have the base ring of jargon and...

    Leslie Armour Ph.D. in The Rational and the Real (1962)

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    Value and Reality

    My aim, in this chapter, is to set forth an argument which, if it is valid, will demonstrate, on independent grounds, the truth of the conclusions suggested in the earlier chapters. One premise of this argumen...

    Leslie Armour Ph.D. in The Rational and the Real (1962)

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    The Structure of Experience

    I propose here to discuss, in some detail, two problems relating to the concept of space. Both appear to produce dilemmas. One arises from a set of epistemological problems which seem to force the belief that ...

    Leslie Armour Ph.D. in The Rational and the Real (1962)