Three Types of Logical Theory (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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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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