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AN excellent short account of the leading thought and ground-principle of the most philosophically minded of the German physicists. When only fifteen, he had read from his father's library Kant's “Prolegomena” and Fechner's “Tagesansicht,” and he seems even then to have formed a fixed resolution to eschew metaphysics and follow in all his researches a pure inductive method. He had throughout his life an almost English aversion to apriorism and to transcendental systems of philosophy. The book contains a most interesting selection from his note-books from 1880 to 1882 with memoranda for his “Mechanik.” It recalls the “Common-place Book” of our own Berkeley.
Die Grundgedanken der Machschen Philosophie: mit Erstveröffentlichungen aus seinen wissenschaftlichen Tagebüchern.
Prof. Dr.
Hugo
Dingler
Von. Pp. 106. (Leipzig: J. A. Barth, 1924.) 3 gold marks.
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Die Grundgedanken der Machschen Philosophie: mit Erstveröffentlichungen aus seinen wissenschaftlichen Tagebüchern . Nature 115, 225 (1925). https://doi.org/10.1038/115225d0
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