An elementary textbook of Thomistic psychology, presenting traditional doctrines in traditional terms, and embodying pedagogical aids--summaries, questions and suggested readings--at the end of each chapter.--E. T.

--An important survey of the ways concepts are used. Part I deals with the logic of ostensive concepts. Part II deals with epistemological problems, and Part III with ethics, aesthetics and metaphysics. The discussions, though sometimes too technically presented and sometimes too brief, are frequently illuminating, especially those on entailment and on the applications of mathematics.--R. N. S.

This is an extraordinary book in many ways. First, it is the most systematic of Paul Weiss’s many systematic books. Modes of Being focused almost exclusively on ultimate realities or what Weiss now calls "finalities." Beyond All Appearances focused on the appearances of everyday life and how they make reference to conditions lying beyond them. First Considerations systematically relates appearances and finalities, principally through the problems of getting to know them.

The author discusses Aristotelian logic from the linguistic point of view and attempts to show that it formulates the rules of a language common to all the sciences. A defect of the work is its neglect of the work of Lukasiewicz.--R. N. S.

This immense investigation, covering logic, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, aesthetics, religion, ethics, politics, and pedagogy, rests mainly on two notions: 1) that of syneteric judgments, which make a realist epistemology and ontology possible; and 2) that of partial being: a finite individual is only partially, being in space and time; becoming is a transmission of quantity of being and is a descending process. This thesis leads to a reformulation of St. Thomas' Fourth Way, and, inter alia, to a liberal, (...) non-optimistic, anti-utopian moral and political viewpoint.--R. N. S. (shrink)