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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

W. von Leyden
W. von Leyden
Affiliation:
University of Durham.
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Philosophy , Volume 46 , Issue 175 , January 1971 , pp. 38 - 42
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1971

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References

1 Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Science: The Classical Origins, Descartes to Kant. By Buchdahl, Gerd. (Oxford: Blackwell, 1969), pp. xii+714, £5 5s.Google Scholar

2 Buchdahl is mistaken in regarding Hume's language of ‘impression’ as totally interchangeable with that of ‘object’ (365–6). Apart from printer's errors I have noticed only a few other minor mistakes.

3 See for instance the parentheses, quotes, and italics on p. 618. Throughout the book there is an excessive use of Kneale's phrase ‘opaque’, as meaning ‘unintelligible to the human intellect’, and of the old technical favourite ‘putative’.