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The Concept of Nature: The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
Autor: Whitehead, Alfred North
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ISBN: 9781926683911
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Excerpt: Special characters This file uses the following special characters: If these do not you might try another font or browser, or use the ISO-8859-1 or ASCII text version of this ebook. Printer errors Two printer errors have been corrected: On page51 the word sight has been changed to touch as suggested by the sense; and on page180 the word universely has been changed to inversely. These are marked in the text by mouse-hovers. The Concept of NATURE The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College November 1919 Alfred North Whitehead PREFACE The contents of this book were originally delivered at Trinity College in the autumn of 1919 as the inaugural course of Tarner lectures. The Tarner lectureship is an occasional office founded by the liberality of Mr Edward Tarner. The duty of each of the successive holders of the post will be to deliver a course on the Philosophy of the Sciences and the Relations or Want of Relations between the different Departments of Knowledge. The present book embodies the endeavour of the first lecturer of the series to fulfil his task. The chapters retain their original lecture form and remain as delivered with the exception of minor changes designed to remove obscurities of expression. The lecture form has the advantage of suggesting an audience with a definite mental background which it is the purpose of the lecture to modify in a specific way. In the presentation of a novel outlook with wide ramifications a single line of communications from premises to conclusions is not sufficient for intelligibility. Your audience will construe whatever you say into conformity with their pre-existing outlook. For this reason the first two chapters and the last two chapters are essential for intelligibility though they hardly add to the formal completeness of the exposition. Their function is to prevent the reader from bolting up side tracks in pursuit of misunderstandings. The same reason dictates my avoidance of the existing tech...Hodnocení uživatelů:
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