This is the first publication on complete and stand alone arithmetization of bivalent logic.

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TO BE A THEIST, THE AUTHOR ARGUES, IS TO CONSTRUE THE WORLD AS A WHOLE ON THE MODEL OF A RATIONAL AGENT’S ACTIVITIES. CHRISTIAN THEISM IS CHARACTERISED BY PARTICULAR CLAIMS AS TO MATTERS OF FACT: GOD IS (A) THAT WHICH IS SAID TO MAKE ALL THINGS, (B) THE OBJECT OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE, (C) THAT WHICH WILL ULTIMATELY BRING ABOUT A STATE OF JUSTICE, (D) THAT WHICH BROUGHT IT ABOUT THAT JESUS LIVED, DIED AND ROSE FROM THE DEAD. MEYNELL CONTENDS THAT (...) THIS IS A LOGICALLY COHERENT IDEA AND SHOWS WITH REFERENCE TO THE DEPENDENT CONCEPTS OF GRACE, EVIL, PRAYER, PROVIDENCE, MIRACLE AND THE AFTER-LIFE THAT THE CHRISTIAN FAITH HAS ESCHATOLOGICAL TRUTH-CONDITIONS. (BP). (shrink)

Die Aufsätze dieses Buches behandeln einen selbstreflexiven Aufriß der Methodik, die lebensweltlichen Voraussetzungen methodischer Begriffsbildung, den Plan des systematischen methodischen Aufbaus sowie methodische Folgerungen hinsichtlich einer wissenschaftlichen und philosophischen Psychologie. Sie repräsentieren damit grundlegende Momente des umfangreichen Dinglerschen Werkes und mögen dazu anregen, sich einen der interessantesten Wissenschaftsphilosophen dieses Jahrhunderts neu zu erschließen. Inhalt: Methodik statt Erkenntnistheorie; 1936 - Das Unberührte. Die Definition des unmittelbar gegebenen; 1942 - Das See-lenproblem in methodischer Behandlung, Erstveröffentlichung.

Nous reproduisons ici, avec l’aimable autorisation de la Hofbibliothek Aschaffenburg, la courte correspondance inédite entre Dingler et Henri Poincaré. Cette correspondance, conservée aux Archives Dingler dans la Hofbibliothek Aschaffenburg, consiste en trois documents : un brouillon en allemand de la main de Dingler, sa traduction française par une autre plume, mais avec des corrections ef...

The peculiar situation of epistemology has often been remarked upon, meaning that sort of epistemology which issued from English empiricism and whose father is taken to be John Locke. Epistemology in the general sense has existed as long as there has been scientific philosophy, and in truth it has always formed the basis and core of all scientific philosophizing.