Mind and the World Order: Outline of a Theory of Knowledge

Lewis, Clarence Irving

ISBN 10: 0486265641 / ISBN 13: 9780486265643

Published by Dover Publications, 1991

About this Item

The book is complete and readable, with all pages and cover intact. Dust jacket, shrink wrap, or boxed set case may be missing. Pages may have light notes, highlighting, or minor water exposure, but nothing that affects readability. May be an ex-library copy and could include library markings or stickers.

Seller Inventory # BSM.Q14G

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Mind and the World Order: Outline of a Theory of Knowledge
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0486265641
• ISBN 13: 9780486265643
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

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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.

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.