Abstract

Professor Weiss thinks that nothing less than a complete explanation of all there is will do for a philosophy. This desire to be all-encompassing defines the kind of multiplication of entities he believes to be necessary. For him the method of philosophy is dialectical, and dialectic is the recognition and provision of that which would complete the given. The technique is similar to what some psychologists have called "eduction of the correlate"; it is similar also to Kant's transcendental method of proof, which proceeds from our actual experience to the conditions under which alone such experience is possible.