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The System of the Sciences and the Organization of Knowledge

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Henry Evelyn Bliss*
Affiliation:
The College of the City of New York, Convent Avenue and 139th St., New York, N. Y.

Extract

In the survey and criticism of science and philosophy we are considering systems of knowledge and thought rationally developed from coherent human experience. These rational systems are in a definite sense intellectually organized. Where intellectual and social problems are real and urgent the relevant knowledge and thought should be organized socially and purposively to achieve tentative, if not adequate or definitive solutions.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © The Philosophy of Science Association 1935

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References

1 The interested reader may find the writer's definitions in his book on The Organization of Knowledge and the System of the Sciences, published in 1929.

2 The writer's definitions may be found in the book cited above.

3 These criticisms are amplified and justified in the writer's second book, The Organization of Knowledge in Libraries, published in 1933.