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Carveth Read (1848 – 1931) was a 19th and 20th century British philosopher and logician. He was professor of philosophy of mind, and logic at the University College London.
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the metaphysics of nature
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II REALITY AND TRUTH § 1. Opposite me, at a distance of about 500 yards, a hill rises steeply to a height of about 1000 feet. At its foot lies a narrow meadow surrounded by dark green woods of oak, chestnut and fir. Above the wood runs a brighter border of ferns, then heather, and at the top grey crags. In the blue overarching sky a few white or grey clouds drift slowly along. From the valley at the foot of the hill is heard the rushing of a mountain stream, hidden by trees, and from this side of it a meadow and lawn slope up to my window. Cattle browse across the meadows; swallows skim by in the air, and a light wind rustles through the woodland. This is Empirical Eeality, matter of fact, the scene of the activity and interest of life, the beauty of the world, which can never be " explained away," and for which no theory can ever be substituted. Why not be content with this, instead of making a theory about it ? Still, this being a working hour, terms of the Schools begin to jangle in my ears and gurgle in my throat. I observe grimly that the scene before me is matter in space, a continuum of points of resistance and intervals of free movement ; that I am necessarily impressed with its permanence as a whole, in spite of changes among its parts; and with its independence of myself, in the sense that others will see it when I go away, and that if I come back next year it will seem much the same. I see that all objects in the landscape have characteristic properties; that only oak, and fir, and fern, and heath, and rock look just like that; that onlyswallows and one or two other birds with similar wings have just that casting, sweeping flight; that only mountain streams make just that everlasting noise. And as to all this no serious doubt is possible, and if any ...
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the metaphysics of nature
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II REALITY AND TRUTH § 1. Opposite me, at a distance of about 500 yards, a hill rises steeply to a height of about 1000 feet. At its foot lies a narrow meadow surrounded by dark green woods of oak, chestnut and fir. Above the wood runs a brighter border of ferns, then heather, and at the top grey crags. In the blue overarching sky a few white or grey clouds drift slowly along. From the valley at the foot of the hill is heard the rushing of a mountain stream, hidden by trees, and from this side of it a meadow and lawn slope up to my window. Cattle browse across the meadows; swallows skim by in the air, and a light wind rustles through the woodland. This is Empirical Eeality, matter of fact, the scene of the activity and interest of life, the beauty of the world, which can never be " explained away," and for which no theory can ever be substituted. Why not be content with this, instead of making a theory about it ? Still, this being a working hour, terms of the Schools begin to jangle in my ears and gurgle in my throat. I observe grimly that the scene before me is matter in space, a continuum of points of resistance and intervals of free movement ; that I am necessarily impressed with its permanence as a whole, in spite of changes among its parts; and with its independence of myself, in the sense that others will see it when I go away, and that if I come back next year it will seem much the same. I see that all objects in the landscape have characteristic properties; that only oak, and fir, and fern, and heath, and rock look just like that; that onlyswallows and one or two other birds with similar wings have just that casting, sweeping flight; that only mountain streams make just that everlasting noise. And as to all this no serious doubt is possible, and if any ...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: white race, or that they have straight black hair, and A tries to prove these propositions, his difficulties greatly increase and may become insuperable. He must collect ethnological evidence, and convince B of its sufficiency ; and if his friend be of a sceptical turn of mind, or desire a reputation for ingenuity rather than for good sense, the conclusion that some white races have straight black hair may be indefinitely postponed. In fact, to follow out this illustration would be altogether unsuitable to an introductory chapter ; we had better turn to a simpler case. Suppose that A holds in his hand a piece of yellow metal, which he asserts to be copper, and that B doubts this, perhaps suggesting that it is really gold. Then A may propose to dip it in vinegar ; and we will suppose B to agree that, if it then turns green, it is copper and not gold. On trying this experiment the metal does turn green; so that we may put A's argument in this way : Whatever yellow metal turns green in vinegar is copper; This yellow metal turns green in vinegar; Therefore, this yellow metal is copper. Now, however, it may occur to B that the liquid in which the metal was dipped was not vinegar, or not pure vinegar, and that the greenness was due to the impurity. A must thereupon show by some means that the vinegar was pure; and then his argument will be that, since nothing but the vinegar came in contact with the metal, the greenness was due to the vinegar; or, in other words, that contact with the vinegar was the cause of the metal turning green. Still, on second thoughts, B may suspect that he had formerly conceded too much ; he may reflect that, although it had often been shown that copper turned green in vinegar, whilst gold did not, yet the same might not always happen. How do we k...
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