Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER VIII THE POSITIVE AS SELF-CREATED The distinction between abstract and concrete thought is fundamental. The transfer of a problem from i. Abstract abstract to concrete thought is, we may and concrete say, the master-key of our whole doctrine, thought. Many and various doctrines, which have thrown philosophy into a tangle of inextricable difficulties and have blocked the path of escape from empiricism, have in our view arisen entirely from looking at the abstract in unconsciousness of the concrete in which it is engrafted and by which it is conceivable. For empiricism itself is an abstract view of reality, and all its difficulties arise from the restriction of its standpoint. It can only be overcome when we succeed in rising to the speculative standpoint. Of doctrines which spring from the soil of abstract thought we can find perhaps no more notable and significant example than that of the abstractness of table of judgments, from which Kant in Kant-s classifi-the Critique of Pure Reason deduces the cauon of the categories. He distinguishes--to take one judgments. ...., . example of his method--three species of modality in the judgment, according to whether the judgment is assertorical, problematical, or apodeictical; or according to whether the relation of the predicate to the subject is thought to be actual or possible 96 ch.vm CLASSIFICATION OF JUDGMENTS 97 or necessary. And in classifying the judgments which are thus set in array for our thought and regarded as the content of our mind, inherent in it but detachable from it, a content communicable to others because conceivable in itself, he is right in holding that there are all these three, and no more than these three, species of modality. But when judgments are..."
