Sinopsis
Tinappeal to timer mthe verdict of history is legitimate in cases of political, economic, scientitic. an leven of mathematical theorus. fr it is reconied that these are cases in which the temporal element enters that theirS uccesses and failures will come out in the ijive and take of experience. The contract theory of the state, theM althusian principle, the IV lema .in-H omy, the Kuclidian geometry, Aristotelian L.-ic all these and man other truths have been toted in the laboratory of time. I listoiy M-i-nis Mrewn with the wreck-i Prole-omenas in any future Metaphvsic .with I nknowahlcs, with A hsolutes, Limit-, itli Force and Matter, withS ouls all t1 niyin; in their day the efforts of nun to interpret the data of experi lhilos,,phical tOO, yield to the hum.; of tin: Si iic do for th- ethat are tinicL v.v can n..t appeal to time cither for erification or rejection. Such systems. in would find it impro|)er to treat historically the social and pconditions out of which ami from which the system in qu originated, forM idi pi rt inn rmane to a tinu-l VC r, he profitable from the standpnint of the history ..f the kno ;.art of his personal aphy, to have in mind for oeial occasions, the historical si-ttin-f his t(.-m. Flic tact that questions i uee ci iH sidercd ot vital siniticance have not heen solved hut shuiiicd, lived over, lias value to him whose interests lead to an historical consideration of problems. It has simiitieance :t is evidence of the constant shifting of problems due to conditions which the older students of the problem did not have to face. For a thousand years the best intellects of the world were cnnayed on the other world problem, with the result that little was accomplished for there were few means, save by dialectics, for accomplishing anything. A shift in the problems which confront a people carries with shift from older theories to ones w
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Excerpt from Three Types of Logical Theory
In fact the substance doctrine suggests an origin in a social life in which everything must belong to something. A slave belongs to the master, the master in turn to a higher master, until the whole social group becomes possessed by some one else. So it was with attributes-those of matter, which func tioned in physical theories until recent days, and of mind which to this day find expression in certain types of psychology. The mind or consciousness has ideas, feelings, images. When the notion of substance is driven from psychology because of its failure to take. Into itself the peculiar case, then will the way be clear for a scientific psychology, This apparent digression has as its object to make clear the relation between certain elements of progress. If we grant that such has been made, it is evident that it is made only on the breakdown of older systems, for, as has been pointed out. If a fact is to be explained it must be explained in terms of the theory then in vogue. The astronomer who notices for the first time a small speck on the photographic plate, who notices it on successive nights at different places, can calculate its orbit, can interpret it in terms of the system of which it is a part, where upon it becomes an embodied theory, possessing all the richness the system itself posseses; and is no longer a bare fact. In such a case as this example three possible results may happen.
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