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Foundations of empiricism

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  • © 1962

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  1. James K. Feibleman

    1. Tulane University, USA

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XII
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  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. An Introduction to Metaphysics for Empiricists

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      Pages 3-15

  3. Categorematics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17
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    2. On the Topics and Definitions of the Categories

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      Pages 19-37

    3. Some Typically Selected Categories

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      Pages 38-94

  4. Axiomatics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-95
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    2. On the Theory of Induction

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      Pages 97-108

    3. On the Connections Between the Two Worlds

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      Pages 109-119

    4. A Logically Primitive and Empirically Verifiable Ontology

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      Pages 120-132

    5. Propositions and Facts

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      Pages 133-145

  5. Systemics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147
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    2. The Domain of Finite Ontology

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      Pages 149-164

    3. The Range of Dyadic Ontology

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      Pages 165-174

  6. Ethics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 175-175
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    2. An Objective, Empirical Ethics

      • James K. Feibleman
      Pages 177-195

    3. Ethical Variations on a Theme by Rosmini-Serbati

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      Pages 196-208

    4. The Ethics of Action

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      Pages 209-226

  7. Practics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 227-227
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    2. The Rational Unconscious

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      Pages 229-234
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For some centuries now the western world has endeavored to choose between rationalism and empiricism; or, when a choice was found impossible, somehow to reconcile them. But the particular brands of both which were taken for granted in confronting the problem were sUbjective: individual human reasoning stood for rationalism and private sense experience for empiricism. Since Plato it has been known that reasoning and feeling are often in conflict. No wonder that a standard for deciding between them or for harmonizing the two was found difficult to come by. Fortunately, due to the revival of realism, a way out presented itself, and we could now consider rationalism and empiricism on some kind of objective basis. In other words, rationalism is a theory about something outside us, and reasoning involves the utilization of a logic which in no wise depends upon our knowledge of it. Similarly; sense experience reveals the existence of data which can be reached through the senses but which in no way relies upon experience for its existence. Thus both reasoning and sensing bring us fragmentary news about an external world which contains not only logic and value but also the prospects for their reconciliation. The implicit philosophy of nominalism is self-liquidating. Where is the proposition which asserts or takes for granted the sole reality of actual physical particulars to get its reality? The meaning of it as a proposition has no place among the particulars.

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  • Tulane University, USA

    James K. Feibleman

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