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On the Philosophy of Discovery

by William Whewell

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  1. 1Note
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Epigraph
  4. 4Chapter I — Introduction
  5. 5Chapter II — Plato
  6. 6Chapter III — Additional Remarks on Plato
  7. 7Chapter IV — Aristotle
  8. 8Chapter V — Additional Remarks on Aristotle
  9. 9Chapter VI — The Later Greeks
  10. 10Chapter VII — The Romans
  11. 11Chapter VIII — Arabian Philosophers
  12. 12Chapter IX — The Schoolmen of the Middle Ages
  13. 13Chapter X — The Innovators of the Middle Ages
  14. 14Chapter XI — The Innovators of the Middle Ages — Continued
  15. 15Chapter XII — The Revival of Platonism
  16. 16Chapter XIII — The Theoretical Reformers of Science
  17. 17Chapter XIV — The Practical Reformers of Science
  18. 18Chapter XV — Francis Bacon
  19. 19Chapter XVI — Additional Remarks on Francis Bacon
  20. 20Chapter XVII — From Bacon to Newton
  21. 21Chapter XVIII — Newton
  22. 22Chapter XIX — Locke and His French Followers
  23. 23Chapter XX — The Reaction Against the Sensational School
  24. 24Chapter XXI — Further Advance of the Sensational School — M. August…
  25. 25Chapter XXII — Mr. Mill’s Logic
  26. 26Chapter XXIII — Political Economy as an Inductive Science
  27. 27Chapter XXIV — Modern German Philosophy
  28. 28Chapter XXV — The Fundamental Antithesis as It Exists in the Moral…
  29. 29Chapter XXVI — Of the “Philosophy of the Infinite”
  30. 30Chapter XXVII — Sir William Hamilton on Inertia and Weight
  31. 31Chapter XXVIII — Influence of German Systems of Philosophy in Britain
  32. 32Chapter XXIX — Necessary Truth Is Progressive — Objections Considered
  33. 33Chapter XXX — The Theological Bearing of the Philosophy of Discovery
  34. 34Chapter XXXI — Man’s Knowledge of God
  35. 35Chapter XXXII — Analogies of Physical and Religious Philosophy
  36. 36Appendix

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