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Logical Reconstructionism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

C. West Churchman*
Affiliation:
Wayne University

Extract

Comments on Professor Feigl's very comprehensive review of the problem of existential hypotheses may take one of two forms. One may accept the problem in Feigl's own terms and either sympathize or criticize the realistic empiricism to which he subscribes. Or, one may feel that the entire approach is ill-founded, and hence that the distinctions in viewpoints which he draws are comparable to splits in a political party whose basic tenets are incompatible with one's own. This comment takes the second course, and as a commentary can do little more than point out the more serious of the differences which separate Feigl's views from those of the writer.

Type
Symposium on “Existential Hypotheses”
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1950

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Footnotes

The papers in the symposium consist of discussions of Professor Feigl's paper which appeared in the January, 1950 issue of Philosophy of Science.