On Detached Ideas in General, and on Vitally Important Topics as Such
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Resource ID
17495
Access
Open
Contributed by
Frederik Wellmann
type of material
A. MS.
description
Lecture I: published as 1.649-677, with omissions. Discourse on admirable and contemptible qualities. The qualities most admired, e.g., devotion and courage, are instinctual the contemptible qualities derive from reasoning. The origin and influence of the "mechanical philosophy." "But it is one of the great virtues of scientific method that the scientist need not be a deep thinker or even a cultivated mind .... Men of this sort believe in the mechanical philosophy."
general index
Logic (modal see Modality), Mechanics and philosophy, "Detached Ideas on Vitally Important Topics", Quality (see also Feeling Firstness Possibility Predicate), Reason, logic of Science
pagination
pp. 1-35
Date
1898
number
MS0435_024
abbreviated title
1898
date (Robin)
1898