An Introduction to Philosophy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 396 pages of information about An Introduction to Philosophy.

An Introduction to Philosophy eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 396 pages of information about An Introduction to Philosophy.
    compared with reflective thought, 29-31;
    science and the world as mechanism, 148;
    the conservation of energy, 151-154;
    philosophical sciences examined in detail, 223-259;
    science and metaphysical analysis, 246-247;
    the non-philosophical sciences and philosophy, 255-259;
    study of scientific principles, 256-259;
    verification in science and in philosophy, 275-277;
    philosophy as science, 281-283. 
  Scientific Knowledge:  see Science. 
  Sensations:  knowledge of things through, 33-44;
    sense and imagination contrasted, 45-49;
    are “things” groups of, 49-51;
    distinction between things and, 51-56;
    use of the word in this volume and in the
      “System of Metaphysics,” 306-307. 
  Sidgwick:  on Kant, 311. 
  Sigwart:  314. 
  Singularism and Pluralism:  described, 204-205. 
  Skeptics:  their view of philosophy, 7-8;
    their doubt of reality, 59;
    Hume’s skepticism, 171. 
  Socrates:  use of words “philosopher” and “philosophy,” 2;
    attitude toward sophism, 6. 
  Solipsism:  see Other Minds. 
  Solon:  1. 
  Sophists:  characterized, 6. 
  Soul:  see Mind. 
  Space:  plain man’s knowledge of, 73;
    said to be necessary, infinite and infinitely divisible, 73-74;
    discussion of it as necessary and as infinite, 74-77;
    Kant, Hamilton, and Spencer quoted, 75-77;
    as infinitely divisible, the moving point, 77-80;
    Clifford quoted, 79-80;
    real space and apparent, 80-87;
    “matter” and “form,” 82-84;
    extension of imaginary things, 113;
    place of mental phenomena, 115-117, also, 126-129. 
  Spencer, Herbert:  his definition of philosophy, 11;
    his work criticised, 11-12;
    on the “Unknowable” as ultimate Reality, 69-70;
    Spencer as “natural” realist, 174;
    influenced by Kant’s doctrine, 176;
    his inconsistent doctrine of the external world, 183-184;
    defective logic, 228;
    influence of agnosticism, 271;
    references given, 307, 311. 
  Spinoza:  his a priori method, 10;
    on God or substance, 199;
    his rationalism, 208;
    his parallelism, 308;
    references, 311-312. 
  Spiritualism:  the doctrine, 197-198. 
  Stoics:  their view of philosophy, 7-8; their materialism, 102. 
  Strong:  on other minds, 209; references to, 309, 311. 
  Subjective Idealism:  187-188. 
  Subjective Order:  contrasted with objective, 55. 
  Substance:  meaning of word, 108;
    Locke on, 108;
    mind as substance, 111-112;
    doctrine of the One Substance, 198-202. 
  Synthetic Judgments:  defined, 179. 
  Systems of Philosophy:  their relations to each other, 283-287.

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