Energy, a substance, 136;
at rest, 154;
free, 154;
importance of concept of, 128;
in nerves, 177;
the most general concept in the physical sciences, 56;
of form, 145;
of volume, 145
Energy intensity, 153
Erg, definition of, 150
Esperanto, 183, note
Euclid, 44, 140
European-American scripts based on indirect co-ordination, 93
Experience, incompleteness of, 27;
more limited than the conceivable, 118
Experiences, distinguished by _being familiar_, 31;
limited knowledge of, 31
Experiential sciences, see Empirical sciences
Extrapolation, 46, 50, 104
Familiarity due to recalling former similar experiences, 11
Fechner, 102
Feeling, thinking, acting, 174 ff.
Force, 129 ff., 153
Formal sciences, 54;
are empirical sciences, 55;
order most general concept in, 56
Foucault's pendulum experiment, 121
Freedom of the will, 50 ff.
Frequency of process facilitates repetition, 11 ff.
Function, 109 ff.;
continuous and discontinuous, 110;
most general concept in formal sciences, 56
Functional relation, the application of the, 112 ff.
Functions, the theory of, 111
Fundamental principle, the second, 150 ff.
Gases, 145
Generalization, suitable place for, in text-books, 9 ff.
Geometry, 47, 54, 119, 127;
ancient and modern methods of, 110 ff.
Goethe, 99
Good usage in language, 100
Grammatical correctness, importance attached to, 99
Grammatical rules, 97
Gravitation potential, the, 112
Group, the, 65 ff.;
double members or double points in, 82;
linear arrangement of members of, 75 ff.
Groups, artificial and natural, 69 ff.;
closed, among animals, 179;
infinite, equality of, 84;
related, 69 ff.;
unequivocal order of, 83
Heat, mechanical equivalent of, 149;
theory of, 147 ff.
Heat energy, 148 ff.
Heat engine, 151;
ideal, 151 ff.
Heat quantity, 148 ff.
Heliotrope, 90
Herbart, 102
Heredity, 180
Higher analysis, 111
Homonym, 89
Hydromechanics, 147
Ideal cases, 44 ff.
Ideal machines, 132
Identity, the limit case in co-ordination, 82
Ido, 183, note
Imperfection, indestructible quality of science, 4
Incompleteness, no hindrance to efficiency of science, 5
Indestructibility of matter, see Conservation of matter
Indo-Arabic notation, 91
Induction, 38;
the complete and the incomplete, 39
Inductive sciences, 38
Inference, by induction, 38;
from analogy, 140
Infinitesimal analysis, 111
Inorganic world, lack of memory and foresight in, 33
Insoluble problems, 142
Instinctive action, 174
Intercourse, language and, 182 ff.
Isolation among plants and animals, 179
Isomeric, 74
Isomeric changes, 161
Judgments, analytic, 66
Kant, 44, 66, 105
Kepler, 141
Kinetic energy, 132;
and work, their sum constant, 133 ff.;
transformed into work and _vice versa_, 134
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