Elements of metaphysics

Name: Elements of metaphysics
Author: Taylor, A. E. (Alfred Edward)

Taylor, A. E. (Alfred Edward)

Metaphysics

I suppose I need not remind my reader that when a number is spoken of
  as the actual sum of an infinite series (as when 2 is called the sum
  of the series 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + ... to infinity), the word _sum_
  is used in a derivative and improper sense for the limiting value
  assumed by the sum of _n_ terms as _n_ increases indefinitely. See
  Lamb, _Infinitesimal Calculus_, p. 11.

Footnote 113:

  For the various views here summarised, see as original sources,
  Geulincx, _Metaphysica Vera_, Pars Prima, 5-8; Malebranche,
  _Entretiens sur la Metaphysique et sur la Religion_, 7th dialogue;
  Berkeley, _New Theory of Vision_, pp. 147, 148; _Principles of Human
  Knowledge_, §§ 25-33, 51-53, 57, 150; _Second Dialogue between Hylas
  and Philonous_.

Footnote 114:

  Geulincx expresses the principle in the following formula (_op. cit._,
  pt. 1, 5): quod nescis quomodo fiat, id non facis.

Footnote 115:

  Not that existence can intelligibly be treated as a property; on this
  point Kant’s famous criticism of the “ontological proof” seems
  conclusive. But _from the point of view of Leibnitz_ it must be
  imagined as an additional predicate, somehow added by the creative act
  of God to those already contained in the concept of the world as
  “possible.”

Footnote 116:

  For Leibnitz’s doctrine consult further, _The Monadology etc., of
  Leibniz_, edit. by R. Latta, Introduction, pts. 2 and 3, and
  translations of _Monadology_, _New System of the Communication of
  Substances_, with the _First_ and _Third Explanations_ of the New
  System. Also see the elaborate criticisms of B. Russell, _The
  Philosophy of Leibniz_, chap. 4 and following chapters.

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                                BOOK III

                      COSMOLOGY—THE INTERPRETATION
                               OF NATURE




                               CHAPTER I

                              INTRODUCTORY

§ 1. Distinction between the experimental sciences and a Philosophy of
    Nature and Mind. The former concerned with the description, the
    latter with the interpretation, of facts. § 2. Cosmology is the
    critical examination of the special characteristics of the physical
    order. Its main problems are: (1) the problem of the nature of
    Material Existence; (2) problem of the justification of the concept
    of the Mechanical Uniformity of Nature; (3) problems of Space and
    Time; (4) problem of the Significance of Evolution; (5) problem of
    the Place of descriptive Physical Science in the System of Human
    Knowledge.

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Philosophy

Elements of metaphysics

Taylor, A. E. (Alfred Edward)

Metaphysics

I suppose I need not remind my reader that when a number is spoken of
  as the actual sum of an infinite series (as when 2 is called the sum
  of the series 1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + ... to infinity), the word _sum_
  is used in a derivative and improper sense for the limiting value
  assumed by the sum of _n_ terms as _n_ increases indefinitely. See
  Lamb, _Infinitesimal Calculus_, p. 11.

Footnote 113:

  For the various views here summarised, see as original sources,
  Geulincx, _Metaphysica Vera_, Pars Prima, 5-8; Malebranche,
  _Entretiens sur la Metaphysique et sur la Religion_, 7th dialogue;
  Berkeley, _New Theory of Vision_, pp. 147, 148; _Principles of Human
  Knowledge_, §§ 25-33, 51-53, 57, 150; _Second Dialogue between Hylas
  and Philonous_.

Footnote 114:

  Geulincx expresses the principle in the following formula (_op. cit._,
  pt. 1, 5): quod nescis quomodo fiat, id non facis.

Footnote 115:

  Not that existence can intelligibly be treated as a property; on this
  point Kant’s famous criticism of the “ontological proof” seems
  conclusive. But _from the point of view of Leibnitz_ it must be
  imagined as an additional predicate, somehow added by the creative act
  of God to those already contained in the concept of the world as
  “possible.”

Footnote 116:

  For Leibnitz’s doctrine consult further, _The Monadology etc., of
  Leibniz_, edit. by R. Latta, Introduction, pts. 2 and 3, and
  translations of _Monadology_, _New System of the Communication of
  Substances_, with the _First_ and _Third Explanations_ of the New
  System. Also see the elaborate criticisms of B. Russell, _The
  Philosophy of Leibniz_, chap. 4 and following chapters.

-----




                                BOOK III

                      COSMOLOGY—THE INTERPRETATION
                               OF NATURE




                               CHAPTER I

                              INTRODUCTORY

§ 1. Distinction between the experimental sciences and a Philosophy of
    Nature and Mind. The former concerned with the description, the
    latter with the interpretation, of facts. § 2. Cosmology is the
    critical examination of the special characteristics of the physical
    order. Its main problems are: (1) the problem of the nature of
    Material Existence; (2) problem of the justification of the concept
    of the Mechanical Uniformity of Nature; (3) problems of Space and
    Time; (4) problem of the Significance of Evolution; (5) problem of
    the Place of descriptive Physical Science in the System of Human
    Knowledge.

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