Abstract

An imaginative, though at times obscure, inquiry into the nature of method. The setting is dialectical: Buchler elucidates what is methodic about method by examining the views of Bentham, Coleridge, Descartes, Bacon, Dewey, and Whitehead. The concluding exposition of method as "a power of manipulating natural complexes, purposively and recognizably, within a reproducible order of utterance" is suggestive but vague.--N. A. G.