Hans Reichenbach Selected Writings 1909–1953 pp 283-297 | Cite as
Metaphysics and Natural Science [1925a]
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Abstract
Historically, the term ‘metaphysics’ has been synonymous with the demand for a system, for all great metaphysicians of the past have attempted to solve the problem of the transcendental through the construction of a system. But I do not believe that this approach is possible or meaningful today.
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Natural Science External World Conceptual System Probability Inference Naive Realism
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Notes
- 1.Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World, London, 1914.Google Scholar
- 2.Note that no probability inference is drawn from the fact of sensations about the existence of things; rather, probability inference takes place entirely on the sensation side and moves from experienced sensations to those to be experienced in the future. On the contrary, we are asserting here that this process as a whole is equivalent to the metaphysical hypothesis of the existence of the external world.Google Scholar
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