General Theory of Knowledge

✍ Scribed by Moritz Schlick (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Wien
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 432
• Series: LEP Library of Exact Philosophy 11
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

to that goal, and it is hoped that it will incorporate further works dealing in an exact way with interesting philosophical issues. Zürich, April 1973 Mario Bunge From the Preface to the First Edition It may seem odd that aseries of works devoted to the natural sciences should indude - indeed begin with - a volume on phi­ losophy. Today, of course, it is generally agreed that philosophy and natural science are perfectly compatible. But to grant the theory of knowledge such a prominent position implies not only that these two fields are compatible, but that there is a natural connection between them. Thus the indusion of this book in the series can be justified only if such an intimate relation of mutual dependence and interpenetration really does exist. Without anticipating what is to come, the author would like first to explain his point of view on the relationship between epistemology and the sciences, and in so doing make dear at the outset the method to be followed in this book. It is my view - which I have already expressed elsewhere and which I never tire of repeating - that philosophy is not aseparate science to be placed alongside of or above the individual disciplines. Rather, the philosophical element is present in all of the scienccs; it is their true soul, and only by virtue of it are they sciences at all.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XXVI
The Meaning of the Theory of Knowledge....Pages 1-4
Knowing in Everyday Life....Pages 4-8
Knowing in Science....Pages 9-15
Knowing by Means of Images....Pages 15-19
Knowing by Means of Concepts....Pages 20-27
The Limits of Definition....Pages 27-31
Implicit Definitions....Pages 31-39
The Nature of Judgments....Pages 39-48
Judging and Knowing....Pages 48-59
What is Truth?....Pages 59-69
Definitions, Conventions and Empirical Judgments....Pages 69-79
What Knowledge is Not....Pages 79-94
On the Value of Knowledge....Pages 94-101
The Interconnectedness of Knowledge....Pages 102-107
The Analytic Character of Rigorous Inference....Pages 107-115
A Skeptical Consideration of Analysis....Pages 116-122
The Unity of Consciousness....Pages 122-135
The Relationship of the Psychological to the Logical....Pages 135-147
On Self-Evidence....Pages 147-151
So-Called Internal Perception....Pages 151-161
Verification....Pages 162-170
Formulating the Question....Pages 171-175
Naive and Philosophical Viewpoints on the Question of Reality....Pages 175-188
The Temporality of the Real....Pages 188-194
Things-In-Themselves and the Notion of Immanence....Pages 194-203
Critique of the Notion of Immanence....Pages 203-233
Essence and “Appearance”....Pages 233-244
The Subjectivity of Time....Pages 244-251
The Subjectivity of Space....Pages 251-264
The Subjectivity of the Sense Qualities....Pages 264-272
Quantitative and Qualitative Knowledge....Pages 272-289
The Physical and the Mental....Pages 289-301
More on the Psychophysical Problem....Pages 301-314
Objections to Parallelism....Pages 314-325
Monism, Dualism, Pluralism....Pages 325-334
Thinking and Being....Pages 334-341
Knowing and Being....Pages 342-348
Is There a Pure Intuition?....Pages 348-358
Are There Pure Forms of Thought?....Pages 358-366
On Categories....Pages 366-384
On Inductive Knowledge....Pages 384-400
Back Matter....Pages 401-410

✦ Subjects

Science, general