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Foundations of empiricism

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  1. James K. Feibleman

    1. Tulane University, USA

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Practics

    1. Culture as Applied Ontology

      • James K. Feibleman
      Pages 235-242

    2. Toward an Analysis of the Basic Value-System

      • James K. Feibleman
      Pages 243-257

    3. The Natural Society

      • James K. Feibleman
      Pages 258-271

    4. Language and Metaphysics

      • James K. Feibleman
      Pages 272-291

  2. Historics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 293-293
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    2. History of Dyadic Ontology

      • James K. Feibleman
      Pages 295-309

    3. Aristotle as Finite Ontologist

      • James K. Feibleman
      Pages 310-326

    4. Kant and Metaphysics

      • James K. Feibleman
      Pages 327-354

  3. Epistemics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 355-355
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    2. The Range of Sensational Epistemology

      • James K. Feibleman
      Pages 357-363

    3. Knowing About Semipalatinsk

      • James K. Feibleman
      Pages 364-369

    4. An Ontology of Knowledge

      • James K. Feibleman
      Pages 370-382

  4. Back Matter

    Pages 383-389
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About this book

For some centuries now the western world has endeavored to choose between rationalism and empiricism; or, when a choice was found impossible, somehow to reconcile them. But the particular brands of both which were taken for granted in confronting the problem were sUbjective: individual human reasoning stood for rationalism and private sense experience for empiricism. Since Plato it has been known that reasoning and feeling are often in conflict. No wonder that a standard for deciding between them or for harmonizing the two was found difficult to come by. Fortunately, due to the revival of realism, a way out presented itself, and we could now consider rationalism and empiricism on some kind of objective basis. In other words, rationalism is a theory about something outside us, and reasoning involves the utilization of a logic which in no wise depends upon our knowledge of it. Similarly; sense experience reveals the existence of data which can be reached through the senses but which in no way relies upon experience for its existence. Thus both reasoning and sensing bring us fragmentary news about an external world which contains not only logic and value but also the prospects for their reconciliation. The implicit philosophy of nominalism is self-liquidating. Where is the proposition which asserts or takes for granted the sole reality of actual physical particulars to get its reality? The meaning of it as a proposition has no place among the particulars.
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    James K. Feibleman

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