Mind and the World Order: Outline of a Theory of Knowledge (Dover books on Western philosophy)

✍ Scribed by Clarence Irving Lewis

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 460
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Thought-provoking work outlines theory of "conceptual pragmatism," taking into account modern philosophic thought and implications of modern mathematics. Topics include philosophic method, metaphysics, given element in experience, nature of the a priori, experience and order, much else. Stimulating intellectual adventure.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface......Page 5
Contents......Page 11
1. Introduction......Page 14
2. The Given Element in Experience......Page 49
3. The Pure Concept......Page 80
4. Common Concepts and Our Common World......Page 103
5. The Knowledge of Objects......Page 130
6. The Relativity of Knowledge and the Independence of the Real......Page 167
7. The A Priori - Traditional Conceptions......Page 208
8. The Nature of the A Priori, and the Pragmantic Element in Knowledge......Page 243
9. The A Priori and the Empirical......Page 287
10. The Empirical and Probable......Page 322
11. Experience and Order......Page 358
Appendix A: Natural Science and Abstract Concepts......Page 406
Appendix B: Esthesis and Esthetics......Page 415
Appendix C: Concepts and "Ideas"......Page 420
Appendix D: Mind's Knowledge of Itself......Page 425
Appendix E: The Applicability of Abstract Conceptual Systems to Experience......Page 441
Appendix F: The Logical Correlates of the A Priori and the A Posteriori......Page 446
Index......Page 456