Mind and the World Order: Outline of a Theory of Knowledge (Dover Books on Western Philosophy) - Softcover

Lewis, Clarence Irving; Lewis, Irving

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486265641 ISBN 13: 9780486265643

Publisher: Dover Publications Inc., 1991

Synopsis

Thought-provoking work outlines theory of "conceptual pragmatism," taking into account modern philosophic thought and implications of modern mathematics. Topics include philosophic method, metaphysics, given element in experience, nature of the a priori, experience and order, much else. Stimulating intellectual adventure.

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Synopsis

1929. Lewis presents his conceptions which grew out of his investigations in the field of exact logic and its application to mathematics. Contents: About Philosophy in General and Metaphysics in Particular. The Proper Method of Philosophy; The Given Element in Experience; The Pure Concept; Common Concepts and Our Common World; The Knowledge of Objects; The Relativity of Knowledge and the Independence of the Real; The A Priori-Traditional Conceptions; The Nature of the A Priori, and the Pragmatic Element in Knowledge; The A Priori and the Empirical; The Empirical and Probable; and Experience and Order.

Edition details

• Publisher: Dover Publications Inc.
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486265641
• ISBN 13: 9780486265643
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 461