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DR. NORMAN CAMPBELL is so far right that in the philosophical interpretation of science conceptions about reality and existence lie at the very core of the matter. To me, these are primaries and indefinables. They can be explained only in terms of human practice; that is to say, again only in terms of the active side of reality and existence. The logical network view cannot embody in its scheme this activist side of reality, for it is basically static and contemplative in character and purpose. A social philosophy of science, on the other hand, automatically makes man's capacity for changing the world an integral part of its story. The purpose of the philosophy is both conscious and dynamic.
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NATURE, 135, 1036, June 22, 1935.
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LEVY, H. Philosophy and Modern Science. Nature 136, 106 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/136106b0
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