Elements of metaphysics

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

Taylor, A. E. (Alfred Edward)

Metaphysics

See the fuller exposition of this line of argument in Royce, _Studies
  in Good and Evil_, essay on “Nature, Consciousness and
  Self-Consciousness,” to which I am largely indebted throughout the
  present chapter, and for a detailed criticism of the alleged
  “analogical” inference the closely related reasoning of my own essay
  on “Mind and Nature” in _International Journal of Ethics_, October
  1902. The similar but briefer criticism in Royce, _The World and the
  Individual_, Second Series, lecture 4, “Physical and Social Reality,”
  p. 170, I had not had the opportunity to study when the above was
  written. For the whole subject of imitation, see in particular
  Professor Baldwin’s _Mental Development in the Child and the Race_.

Footnote 123:

  For a study of the significance of the “partial independence” of the
  physical world on my will as a factor in producing belief in its
  “external reality,” see Stout, _Manual of Psychology_,^3 bk. iii. pt.
  2, chaps. 1-2, “The Perception of External Reality.”

Footnote 124:

  The doctrine of degrees of reality must be borne in mind throughout
  this discussion. The reality of which the physical order is phenomenal
  may itself be phenomenal of a higher reality.

Footnote 125:

  _Societies_ would be the more natural supposition. We have no reason
  to deny that the various types of non-human intelligence may be cut
  off from social intercourse with each other, as they are from
  intercourse with ourselves.

Footnote 126:

  That is, there are degrees of truth as well as of reality, and the two
  do not necessarily coincide. The degree of truth a doctrine contains
  cannot be determined apart from consideration of the purpose it is
  meant to fulfil. For the special purposes of Metaphysics, the purpose
  of thinking of the world in a finally consistent way, whatever is not
  the whole truth is untrue. But what the metaphysician regards as the
  lesser truth may be the higher truth relatively to other purposes than
  his own. Compare the doctrine of Dr. Stout’s essay on “Error” in
  _Personal Idealism_.

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                              CHAPTER III

                           THE MEANING OF LAW

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Elements of metaphysicsTaylor, A. E. (Alfred Edward)

Philosophy

Elements of metaphysics

Taylor, A. E. (Alfred Edward)

Metaphysics

See the fuller exposition of this line of argument in Royce, _Studies
  in Good and Evil_, essay on “Nature, Consciousness and
  Self-Consciousness,” to which I am largely indebted throughout the
  present chapter, and for a detailed criticism of the alleged
  “analogical” inference the closely related reasoning of my own essay
  on “Mind and Nature” in _International Journal of Ethics_, October
  1902. The similar but briefer criticism in Royce, _The World and the
  Individual_, Second Series, lecture 4, “Physical and Social Reality,”
  p. 170, I had not had the opportunity to study when the above was
  written. For the whole subject of imitation, see in particular
  Professor Baldwin’s _Mental Development in the Child and the Race_.

Footnote 123:

  For a study of the significance of the “partial independence” of the
  physical world on my will as a factor in producing belief in its
  “external reality,” see Stout, _Manual of Psychology_,^3 bk. iii. pt.
  2, chaps. 1-2, “The Perception of External Reality.”

Footnote 124:

  The doctrine of degrees of reality must be borne in mind throughout
  this discussion. The reality of which the physical order is phenomenal
  may itself be phenomenal of a higher reality.

Footnote 125:

  _Societies_ would be the more natural supposition. We have no reason
  to deny that the various types of non-human intelligence may be cut
  off from social intercourse with each other, as they are from
  intercourse with ourselves.

Footnote 126:

  That is, there are degrees of truth as well as of reality, and the two
  do not necessarily coincide. The degree of truth a doctrine contains
  cannot be determined apart from consideration of the purpose it is
  meant to fulfil. For the special purposes of Metaphysics, the purpose
  of thinking of the world in a finally consistent way, whatever is not
  the whole truth is untrue. But what the metaphysician regards as the
  lesser truth may be the higher truth relatively to other purposes than
  his own. Compare the doctrine of Dr. Stout’s essay on “Error” in
  _Personal Idealism_.

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                              CHAPTER III

                           THE MEANING OF LAW

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

Elements of metaphysics

Elements of metaphysics

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