CONTENTS
Wilhelm Ostwald
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Introduction
1
PART I
General Theory of Knowledge
11
1.
The Formation of Concepts
11
2.
Science
13
3.
The Aim of Science
13
4.
Concrete and Abstract
16
5.
The Subjective Part
17
6.
Empirical Concepts
18
7.
Simple and Complex Concepts
19
8.
The Conclusion
24
9.
The Natural Laws
28
10.
The Law of Causation
31
11.
The Purification of the Causal Relation
34
12.
Induction
38
13.
Deduction
40
14.
Ideal Cases
44
15.
The Determinateness of Things
47
16.
The Freedom of the Will
50
17.
The Classification of the Sciences
53
18.
The Applied Sciences
57
PART II
Logic, the Science of the Manifold, and Mathematics
61
19.
The Most General Concept
61
20.
Association
63
21.
The Group
65
22.
Negation
68
23.
Artificial and Natural Groups
69
24.
Arrangement of the Members
75
25.
Numbers
78
26.
Arithmetic, Algebra, and the Theory of Numbers
79
27.
Co-ordination
80
28.
Comparison
82
29.
Numbers
85
30.
Signs and Names
86
31.
The Written Language
89
32.
Pasigraphy and Sound Writing
92
33.
Sound Writing
96
34.
The Science of Language
97
35.
Continuity
101
36.
Measurement
107
37.
The Function
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