Mind, 1912, Vol. 21

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Excerpt from Mind, 1912, Vol. 21: A Quarterly Review of Psychology and Philosophy Philosophy consists for the most part, like other sciences, in applying a single principle of a simple character to a variety of different topics, or rather in attempting to test or verify the possibility of applying it to these topics. It takes for its beginning some fundamental fact which as Berkeley said long ago of the principle which he discovered, a man has only to open his eyes to see. The reasonings by which the philosopher sometimes supports the truth of the fundamental fact are, not so much arguments for what cannot in the nature of the case be proved, as contrivances for putting his readers into the right position for seeing. And the verifica tion of it by applications or deductions is chie¿y useful in so far as they are a means of persuading the reader of the initial principle from which they are deduced. The topic which I propose to treat as an application of a certain funda mental truth or fact or principle is the method of philosophy itself, and as I believe that method to be dictated by a simple fundamental fact of experience, I begin with the statement of this, even at the risk of being tedious to those who have read it already, 1 of whom I am safe in assuming that the number is small. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.