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On the Meaningfulness of Questions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

T. A. Cowan  and
C. W. Churchman
T. A. Cowan
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
C. W. Churchman
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
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The history of Western culture exhibits a profound cleavage of opinion on the nature of what its members take to be reality. On the one hand, there are those for whom certain aspects, at least, of the “real” exist in the human mind only. Others assign as the sole basis of reality the world of non-mental objects. This difference of temperament is so pervasive that it forms a perennial theme, not only for philosophers, but also for scientists, poets, and other students of the vast panorama of the world and its people.

Type
Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 13 , Issue 1 , January 1946 , pp. 20 - 24
Copyright
Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1946

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References

Notes

1 “Critique of Naturalism,” Jour. Phil. XLII, 10 (1945), pp. 253–270.

2 “Are Naturalists Materialists?,” Jour. Phil. XLII, 19 (1945), pp. 515–530.

3 Mind as Behavior (1924); “On Spontaneity,” Jour. Phil. XXII, 16 (1925); “On the Conscious Mind,” Jour. Phil. XXVI, 21 (1929). “Beyond Mechanism and Vitalism,” Phil. of Science, I, 3 (1934); “Logico-Historical Study of Mechanism,” Studies in the History, U. of Pa. Bicentennial Conference, U. of Pa. Press (1941)