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Arranging the Sciences

II. Another Experiment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Extract

Since my discussion of an experimental arrangement of the sciences for certain practical objectives, some comment has appeared which makes it necessary to re-emphasize certain points by a further example. There seems to be something like a desire to paralyze the hand that makes arrangements for fear that undue profound metaphysical significance may be seen in a “mere” arrangement. It is the perennial fear of the a priori, the fear of a principle being invoked because of its “self-evidence”, and then turning traitor on the actual evidence. I invoke no such principle either overtly or covertly.

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Research Article
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1938

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