Mr. Spencer's Unification of Knowledge (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Guthrie, Malcolm

9781331911920: Mr. Spencer's Unification of Knowledge (Classic Reprint)

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ISBN 10: 1331911923 ISBN 13: 9781331911920

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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Excerpt from Mr. Spencer's Unification of Knowledge

Thus, although the writer is fundamentally in sympathy with the goal of Mr. Spencer's attempt, and although he accepts the same at posteriori truths, he is nevertheless compelled to criticise adversely the ambitious claims of the system, with the faultiness of reasoning and general bad workmanship entailed by the supposed accomplish ment of the endeavour. Although it is important that established truths should be frankly accepted, however inharmonious with previous beliefs, it is equally important that imperfections of theory should be freely acknow ledged. The attempt to outrun the gradual growth of knowledge by filling in every hiatus with theoretical ex planations is a positive obstruction to the progress of science.

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Excerpt from Mr. Spencer's Unification of Knowledge

This work, taken in conjunction with a previous one "On Mr. Spencer's Formula of Evolution," must be regarded as a criticism of the general logical construction of Mr. Spencer's philosophical system. The writer is not opposed to the author he criticises as regards the scientific doctrine of evolution or natural development, so far as it is known to us; but he sees great blanks in the deductive treatment, and great failures of explanation, which cause him to regard Air. Spencer's presumed fulness of exposition as merely illusory.

In so far as Mr. Spencer's work is viewed as an attempt to show the a, priori reasonableness of evolution by gradual development already established in various departments of science by a posteriori methods, it may be held to have accomplished its object; but in so far as it claims to have put together a framework of thought commensurate with all the sequences of the cosmos, it must be considered a disjointed structure, from which as yet several connecting parts are missing.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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