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Philosophy of Nature
1958 - 1958
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The Nature of Analytic Philosophy
In the widest sense, analytic philosophy is an activity,—the activity of discovering and exhibiting a structure of meaning fundamental to a progressively larger and more varied set of broad established concepts ....
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Is the Study of Aesthetics a Philosophic Enterprise?
William James has pointed out that as soon as a philosophical problem is definitely solved, it is automatically claimed as a part of science, with the result that philosophy is left “holding the bag,” and is rest...
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Philosophic Disagreement and the Study of Philosophy
For all those who regard the history of philosophy with serious respect, two facts seem inescapable. The first and more obvious one is the multiplicity of philosophical systems; the second, —less evident, perhaps...
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Philosophy and the Categories of Experience
Philosophy, in its broadest and least technical sense, is a world-view—a way of looking at the world; and the way that one looks at the world depends on the categories by means of which he approaches, classifies ...
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Wilmon H. Sheldon’s Philosophy of Philosophy
“Philosophy is doubtless the noblest and, at the same time, if we judge by overt results, the most futile of human enter-prises.” 1 Although on the contemporary scene allegations of the futility of philosophy out...
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Philosophy as Comparative Cosmology
Three decades have elapsed since Whitehead’s attempt to set philosophy to this “sustained effort”, and the philosophic scene is more crowded than ever with empiricist, existentialist, and positivis...
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The Subject-Matter of Philosophy
The expressions used so often to define philosophy, — e. g. philosophy is the study of reality; it is the attempt to understand the whole of our experience; it is the daughter of religion and the mother of the sc...
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An Explanation of Philosophy
To Most people these days philosophy is a vague term with an 1 uncertain meaning, having good though somewhat old-fashioned overtones but too confused, too irrelevant, and too mental, to be taken seriously. When ...
