Perception, Physics and Reality: An Enquiry Into the Information That Physical Science Can Supply about the Real - Couverture souple

Broad, Charles Dunbar

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1498066585 ISBN 13 : 9781498066587

Editeur : Literary Licensing, LLC, 2014

Synopsis

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1914 Edition.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

By natural science, for the present purpose, I mean physics. When a certain way of looking at the universe meets with the extraordinary success with which that of physics has met it becomes the duty of the philosopher to investigate it with care; for it is likely to offer a very much better Cosmology than his own unaided efforts can do. A nd, if philosophy is to take into account empirical facts and it is extremely difficult to see what it will be able to tell us about the existent unless it does it can hardly neglect the most fruitful and thorough investigation of certain large branches of empirical facts that has yet been made. But natural science starts with certain assumptions, and, as it goes on, it developes certain general conclusions about the real world. For instance, it starts with a position not far removed from naif realism, and, in its progress, it draws a distinction between the reality of primary and secondary qualities, and develOpes a causal theory of perception. Now the distinction between primary and secondary qualities as to their reality is a metaphysical question, and science seems historically to have taken over its answer to it from Descartes. This has led quite reasonably to an attack on science from later philosophers who have not agreed that it was possible to stop at the point at which Descartes and natural science stopped in this matter.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Literary Licensing, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1498066585
• ISBN 13: 9781498066587
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 400
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible