Abstract

A tract in the spirit of Eddington, which seeks to show how an idealist epistemology and experimental physics reflect one another. The author begins with an act of awareness as an individual. A relation between such acts then consists "in their being acts of one and the same power of being aware." Next it is claimed that the power of being aware is dialectical. The elaboration of this stage of the argument is supposed to generate space and time. Finally, the rhombic dodecahedron is taken up in an attempt to show a relation of microphysics and continued self-awareness, of which it is the geometrical representation. It would be significant if the general thesis could be made out, but it is hard to see the details of the argument as other than largely arbitrary.—P. S.