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The Choice of a World Outlook1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

Dorothy M. Emmet
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I Take it that my part in this series is not to set forward some particular world outlook, or even to describe different kinds of world outlook. That will have been done already much more adequately by the lecturers who precede me. My part is to discuss what in general is meant by world outlooks, why it is so difficult to arrive at agreement on them, and what kind of considerations should be taken into account in deciding for one rather than another.

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Research Article
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Philosophy , Volume 23 , Issue 86 , July 1948 , pp. 208 - 226
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1948

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page 208 note 1 I have attempted a fuller discussion in Chapter IX of my Nature of Metaphysical Thinking.

page 219 note 1 Cf. Hallett, H. F., “Dr. Johnson's Refutation of Bishop Berkeley,” Mind, April 1947.Google Scholar

page 221 note 1 Prelude VII, 733–36. My attention was called to this latter passage by Professor J. W. Harvey.