World Hypotheses A Study in Evidence

Name: World Hypotheses A Study in Evidence
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ISBN: 9780520009943

ISBN-10: 0520009940

ISBN-13: 9780520009943

Edition: 1942

Authors: Stephen C. Pepper

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"World hypotheses" correspond to metaphysical systems, and they may be systematically judged by the canons of evidence and corroboration. In setting forth his root-metaphor theory and examining six such hypotheses--animism, mysticism, formism, mechanism, contextualism, and organicism--Pepper surveys the whole field of metaphysics. Because this book is an analytical study, it stresses issues rather than men. It seeks to exhibit the sources of these issues and to show that some are unnecessary; that the rest gather into clusters and are interconnected in systems corresponding closely to the traditional schools of philosophy. The virtue of the root-metaphor method is that it puts metaphysics…

Book details

List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1942
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 8/1/1972
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English




The Root-Metaphor Theory



The Utter Skeptic



Dogmatists



Evidence and Corroboration



Hypotheses



Root Metaphors



Examples of Inadequacies in World Hypotheses



The Relatively Adequate Hypotheses



A General View of the Hypotheses



Formism



Mechanism



Contextualism



Organicism



Summary, Criticisms, and Answers



Review and Conclusions