The Story of Western PhilosophyThis book was born of the paperback boom, and it is meant as an aid in the interpretation of the history of Western philosophy. It is designed especially for use in a course in the history of philosophy, but I hope that it may also prove useful for other purposes, such as an historical introduction to philosophy or a comprehensive review of the history of philosophy or just as a help to the general reader trying to make some sense out of the history of Western philosophy.-Preface. |
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Page 168
... method is de- signed to discover the causal laws of phenomena , their determin- ing substructures . The method consists of three tables of instances of some phenomenon , such as heat , from which an induction is made " to find such a ...
... method is de- signed to discover the causal laws of phenomena , their determin- ing substructures . The method consists of three tables of instances of some phenomenon , such as heat , from which an induction is made " to find such a ...
Page 169
... methods Mill adds two others — the joint method of agree- ment and difference and the method of residues - though the first of these is hardly more than a combination of the first two methods and the other is really a deductive rather ...
... methods Mill adds two others — the joint method of agree- ment and difference and the method of residues - though the first of these is hardly more than a combination of the first two methods and the other is really a deductive rather ...
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... method of the empirical sciences which he some- times refers to as the reason of effects . This is the method of statistical probability rather than mathematical deduction , and by adding this method he reintroduces the inductive method ...
... method of the empirical sciences which he some- times refers to as the reason of effects . This is the method of statistical probability rather than mathematical deduction , and by adding this method he reintroduces the inductive method ...
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The Philosophical Story Previewed | 3 |
The Cosmological Philosophers | 13 |
The Anthropological Philosophers | 34 |
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