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... Hans Vaihinger , from the twentieth century . 1. THE APPEAL TO EXPERIENCE — FROM JOHN LOCKE Epistemology is by no means a modern inquiry . Indeed , one of the finest pieces of epistemological analysis ever written may be found in ...
... Hans Vaihinger , from the twentieth century . 1. THE APPEAL TO EXPERIENCE — FROM JOHN LOCKE Epistemology is by no means a modern inquiry . Indeed , one of the finest pieces of epistemological analysis ever written may be found in ...
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... HANS VAIHINGER FROM COMTE TO VAIHINGER . We began with Locke , and have thus far read our way from him through Hume and Kant and Comte . With Comte's positivism matters seemed likely to reach a dead end . What Comte did , in effect ...
... HANS VAIHINGER FROM COMTE TO VAIHINGER . We began with Locke , and have thus far read our way from him through Hume and Kant and Comte . With Comte's positivism matters seemed likely to reach a dead end . What Comte did , in effect ...
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... Hans Vaihinger . Vaihinger seized upon this notion of Kant's , and elaborated it into the general theory that all knowledge rests on useful fictions . This hypothesis was stated and documented in his treatise , The Philosophy of As - If ...
... Hans Vaihinger . Vaihinger seized upon this notion of Kant's , and elaborated it into the general theory that all knowledge rests on useful fictions . This hypothesis was stated and documented in his treatise , The Philosophy of As - If ...
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