Natural Philosophy
by Wilhelm Ostwald
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About this eBook
- Author
- Ostwald, Wilhelm, 1853-1932
- Credits
- Produced by Chris Curnow, John Welch and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- Q: Science
- Subject
- Science -- Philosophy
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 43791
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43791
- Release Date
- September 22, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS
- 4.INTRODUCTION
- 5.PART I GENERAL THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE — 1. The Formation of Concepts. — 2. Science. — 3. The Aim of Science. — 4. Concrete and Abstract. — 5. The Subjective Part. — 6. Empirical Concepts. — 7. Simple and Complex Concepts. — 8. The Conclusion. — 9. The Natural Laws. — 10. The Law of Causation. — 11. The Purification of the Causal Relation. — 12. Induction. — 13. Deduction. — 14. Ideal Cases. — 15. The Determinateness of Things. — 16. The Freedom of the Will. — 17. The Classification of the Sciences. — 18. The Applied Sciences.
- 6.PART II LOGIC, THE SCIENCE OF THE MANIFOLD, AND MATHEMATICS — 19. The Most General Concept. — 20. Association. — 21. The Group. — 22. Negation. — 23. Artificial and Natural Groups. — 24. Arrangement of the Members. — 25. Numbers. — 26. Arithmetic, Algebra, and the Theory of Numbers. — 27. Co-ordination. — 28. Comparison. — 29. Counting. — 30. Signs and Names. — 31. The Written Language. — 32. Pasigraphy and Sound Writing. — 33. Sound Writing. — 34. The Science of Language. — 35. Continuity. — 36. Measurement. — 37. The Function. — 38. The Application of the Functional Relation. — 39. The Law of Continuity. — 40. Time and Space. — 41. Recapitulation.
- 7.PART III THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES — 42. General. — 43. Mechanics. — 44. Kinetic Energy. — 45. Mass and Matter. — 46. Energetic Mechanics. — 47. The Mechanistic Theories. — 48. Complementary Branches of Mechanics. — 49. The Theory of Heat. — 50. The Second Fundamental Principle. — 51. Electricity and Magnetism. — 52. Light. — 53. Chemical Energy.
- 8.PART IV THE BIOLOGIC SCIENCES — 54. Life. — 55. The Storehouse of Free Energy. — 56. The Soul. — 57. Feeling, Thinking, Acting. — 58. Society. — 59. Language and Intercourse. — 60. Civilization.
- 9.FOOTNOTES:
- 10.INDEX
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