By Evert Willem Beth
A number of days prior to his dying my husband asked me to jot down a couple of phrases of thank you at the book of this number of articles. He had already ready the larger a part of the quantity for the click and had additionally selected the name technology a street to knowledge. His unique choice was once a bit extra complete, that is nonetheless partially mirrored within the Preface. figuring out how a lot he wanted to work out this assortment released, I respectfully and lovingly fulfil his request, thanking Else M. Barth and J. J. A. Mooij for his or her huge and professional care in placing the ultimate touches to the quantity. ADDITION TO the interpretation eventually, I desire to thank Peter G. E. Wesly for his willingness to adopt the interpretation of the e-book into English. c. P. C. BETH-PASTOOR IX PREFACE during this republication of a couple of philosophical reviews i've got avoided together with articles of a really expert nature on symbolic common sense and the technique of the precise sciences. there has been no reason to incorporate my contributions in the direction of the didactics of arithmetic and physics, nor did I ponder it applicable to reprint items of a predominantly polemical nature. i made a decision, despite the fact that, very modest choice from my basically ancient paintings wouldn't be misplaced.
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These attempts initiated the development of scientific philosophy. It should be noted that scientific philosophy does not indiscriminately reject the tenets of traditional philosophy or even of irrationalism. On the contrary, it considers it as one of its tasks to clarify the often obscure pronouncements of traditional philosophy and of irrationalism. Some of these must be dismissed as devoid of sense, others must be rejected as false; a number of these statements, however, can be accepted, though in most cases only after a thorough revision.
Ifthe subject 'Socrates' is replaced by 'Julius Caesar' or 'Rembrandt' or 'Kant' and the predicate mortal by 'famous' or 'profound', the resulting judgment has a different content but the same form; this common form of the two judgments is expressed in the copula 'is'. Now let us consider the classical inference All men are mortal Socrates is a man Socrates is mortal If we substitute 'Greek philosopher' for 'man', 'clever' for 'mortal', and 'Plato' for 'Socrates', we get All Greek philosophers are clever Plato is a Greek philosopher Plato is clever We see that the validity of the inference does not depend on its content but on its form.
In science it is not warranted to take only 'great and general' facts into account and to discard experimental results like those just referred to as 'unimportant'. For the scientific significance of a fact depends not only on its prominence or on the frequency of its occurrence but also, in certain circumstances, on the extent to which it determines the course of scientific thought. The more general consideration is that by discarding less conspicuous experimental results, we would be wilfully reducing the domain of our experience, thus deliberately confining our outlook to the sphere of everyday experience.