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Natural Philosophy

by Wilhelm Ostwald

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2Introduction
  3. 3Part I — General Theory of Knowledge
  4. 42 — Science
  5. 53 — The Aim of Science
  6. 64 — Concrete and Abstract
  7. 75 — The Subjective Part
  8. 86 — Empirical Concepts
  9. 97 — Simple and Complex Concepts
  10. 108 — The Conclusion
  11. 119 — The Natural Laws
  12. 1210 — The Law of Causation
  13. 1311 — The Purification of the Causal Relation
  14. 1412 — Induction
  15. 1513 — Deduction
  16. 1614 — Ideal Cases
  17. 1715 — The Determinateness of Things
  18. 1816 — The Freedom of the Will
  19. 1917 — The Classification of the Sciences
  20. 2018 — The Applied Sciences
  21. 21Part II — Logic, the Science of the Manifold, and Mathematics
  22. 2220 — Association
  23. 2321 — The Group
  24. 2422 — Negation
  25. 2523 — Artificial and Natural Groups
  26. 2624 — Arrangement of the Members
  27. 2725 — Numbers
  28. 2826 — Arithmetic, Algebra, and the Theory of Numbers
  29. 2927 — Co-ordination
  30. 3028 — Comparison
  31. 3129 — Counting
  32. 3230 — Signs and Names
  33. 3331 — The Written Language
  34. 3432 — Pasigraphy and Sound Writing
  35. 3533 — Sound Writing
  36. 3634 — The Science of Language
  37. 3735 — Continuity
  38. 3836 — Measurement
  39. 3937 — The Function
  40. 4038 — The Application of the Functional Relation
  41. 4139 — The Law of Continuity
  42. 4240 — Time and Space
  43. 4341 — Recapitulation
  44. 44Part III — The Physical Sciences
  45. 4543 — Mechanics
  46. 4644 — Kinetic Energy
  47. 4745 — Mass and Matter
  48. 4846 — Energetic Mechanics
  49. 4947 — The Mechanistic Theories
  50. 5048 — Complementary Branches of Mechanics
  51. 5149 — The Theory of Heat
  52. 5250 — The Second Fundamental Principle
  53. 5351 — Electricity and Magnetism
  54. 5452 — Light
  55. 5553 — Chemical Energy
  56. 56Part IV — The Biologic Sciences
  57. 5755 — The Storehouse of Free Energy
  58. 5856 — The Soul
  59. 5957 — Feeling, Thinking, Acting
  60. 6058 — Society
  61. 6159 — Language and Intercourse
  62. 6260 — Civilization

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