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Is Nature Rational?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Ralph B. Winn
Ralph B. Winn*
Affiliation:
College of the City of New York
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Extract

Most words are like small vessels with constantly changing contents. Life does not wait for adjustments in language, but seeks to give an immediate solution to its most imperative needs and interests. It builds up and sometimes destroys. It is a panorama in flux.

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Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 6 , Issue 3 , July 1939 , pp. 285 - 300
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Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association

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References

Notes

1 An Idealist View of Life, 17.

2 Idealism as a Philosophy, 80.

3 “Is Idealism Realism?”, Journal of Philosophy, 1933. The parenthetical remarks are mine.

4 C. L. Barrett, Philosophy, 306.

5 Opere, VII, 341.

6 The Republic, Book VII.

7 The Mysterious Universe, 12.

8 Living Philosophies, a Symposium, 7.

9 Novum Organum, aphorism 41. Italics are mine. R. W.

10 J. H. Muirhead, “Past and Present in Contemporary Philosophy”, Contemporary British Philosophy, I.