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Additional authors

1. Ogden, C. K. (Charles Kay), 1889-1957
2. Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. publisher
3. Harcourt Brace & Company publisher

Description

1. xlviii, 370 p. diagrs.; 23cm.

Summary

1. "The present translation is based upon the definitive sixth edition of the original, revised for the purpose by the author ... Professor Vaihinger's own account of his life-work and of the spirit in which The philosophy of `as if' was written has been added by way of general introduction"--p. [vi].

Series statement

1. International library of psychology, philosophy, and scientific method

Uniform title

1. International library of psychology, philosophy, and scientific method

Subject

1. Fictions, Theory of
2. Pragmatism
3. Positivism
4. Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1844-1900
5. Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804

Contents

1. General Introduction -- 1. Thought, considered from the point of view of a purposive organic Function -- 2. Thought as an Art, Logic as Technology -- 3. The Difference between the Artifices and Rules of Thought -- 4. The Transtition to Fictions -- Part I. BASIC PRINCIPLES : General Introductory Remarks on Fictional Constructs -- A. Enumeration and Division of Scientific Fictions: 1. Artificial Classification -- 2. Abstractive (Neglective) Fictions -- 3. Schematic, Paradigmatic, Utopian and Type Fictions -- 4. Symbolic (Analogical) Fictions -- 5. Juristic Fictions -- 6. Personificatory Fictions -- 7. Summational Fictions -- 8. Heuristic Fictions -- 9. Practical (Ethical) Fictions -- 10. Mathematical Fictions -- 11. The Method of Abstract Generalization -- 12. The Method of Unjustified Transference -- 13. The Concept of Infinity -- 14. Matter and the Sensory World of Ideas -- 15. The Atom as a Fiction -- 16. Fictions in Mechanics and Mathematical Physics -- 17. Things-in-themselves -- 18. The Absolute -- B. The Logical Theory of Scientific Fictions -- 19. Introductory Remarks on the Position of Fictions and Semi-fictions in the Logical System as a Whole -- 20. The Separation of Scientific from other Fictions, particularly from the Aesthetic -- 21. The Difference between Fiction and Hypothesis -- 22. The Linguistic Form of the Fiction. Analysis of "As if" -- 23. Collection of other Expressions for "Fiction" -- 24. The Main Characteristics of Fictions -- 25. Outline of a General Theory of Fictional Constructs -- 26. The Method of Correcting Arbitrary Differencs, or the Method of Antithetic Error -- 27. The Law of Ideational Shifts -- C. Contributions to the History and Theory of Fictions (Preliminary Remarks. The Theory and Practice of Fictions) -- 28. The Fiction in Greek Scientific Procedure -- 29. Beginnings of a Theory of Fictions among the Greeks -- 30. The Use of the Fiction among the Romans -- 31. Beginnings of a Theory of Fictions among the Romans -- 32. Medieval Terminalogy -- 33. The Use of Fictions in Modern Times -- 34. The Theory of Fictions in Modern Times -- D. Consequences for the theory of knowledge -- 35. The Basic Problem of the Theory of Knowledge -- 36. The Falsification of Reality by the Logical Functions -- 37. Categories as Fictions -- 38. Categories as Analogical Fictions -- 39. The Practical Unity of the Fiction of Categories -- Part II. AMPLIFIED STUDY OF SPECIAL PROBLEMS : 1. Artifical Classification -- 2. Further Artifical Classifications -- 3. Adam Smith's Method in Political Economy -- 4. Bentham's Method in Political Science -- 5. Abstractive Fictional Methods in Physics and Psychology -- 6. Condillac's Imaginary Statue -- 7. Lotez's 'Hypothetical Animal' -- 8. Other Examples of Fictitious Isolation -- 9. The Fiction of Force -- 10. Matter and Materialism as Mental Accesories -- 11. Abstract Concepts as Fictions -- 12. General Ideas as Fictions -- 13. Summational, Nominal, and Substitutive Fictions -- 14. Natural Forces and Natural Laws as Fictions -- 15. Schematic Fictions -- 16. Illustrative Fictions -- 17. The Atomic Theory as a Fiction -- 18. Fictions in Mathematical Physics -- 19. The Fiction of Pure Absolute Space -- 20. Surface, Line, Point, etc., as Fictions -- 21. The Fiction of the Infinitely Small -- 22. The History of the Infinitesimal Fiction -- 23. The Meaning of the 'As If' Approach -- 24. The Fictive Judgement -- 25. The Fiction contrasted with the Hypothesis -- Part III HISTORICAL CONFIRMATIONS : A. Kants Use of the 'As If' Method: I. The Fundamental Elements in the principal Critical Works of Kant ; II. Discussion of Principles in Kant's Chief Works on Ethics and the Philosophy of Religion ; III. Confirmations and Applications in the Other Works of the Critical Period (especially of 1790) ; IV. Kant's Posthumous Papers -- B. Forberg, The Originator of the Fichtean Atheism-Controversy, and His Religion of As-If -- C. Lange's "Standpoint of the Ideal" -- D. Nietzsche And His Doctrine of Conscious Illusion (The Will to Illusion) -- Subject-Index -- Index of Names.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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