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Towards a New Philosophy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 February 2009
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There is perhaps no part of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason which has called forth such severe criticism as his deduction of the System of Categories in the Transcendental Analytic. I am not aware of even one among his many followers who holds to this part of Kant’s doctrine. And the reason for this disagreement is obvious. Kant’s deduction of his System of Categories is based on Formal Logic, the theory of syllogism, first laid down by Aristotle. Mediaeval scholars had changed some details and partly systematized the subject. Kant himself had added some finishing touches to produce his famous number of a dozen categories, but the gist of this logical theory was the same as that found in Aristotle’s Organon.
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page 161 note 1 I do not think that even Speculative Idealism starts from fundamentally different presuppositions, but it is impossible to enter into details of this question here.
page 161 note 2 I have tried to give a more detailed account in my book Het Waarheidsprobleem (The Truth Problem), Tjeenk Willink, Haarlem, 1926. As this book has been published only in Dutch, I am very glad to have the opportunity to come into contact with English readers through this Journal.
page 163 note 1 Waals-kohnstamm, Van Der, Lehrbuch der Thermostatik, Leipzig, Barth, 1927.Google Scholar
page 163 note 2 The outcome of the combined work of Willard Gibbs, of Van der Waals and Bakhuis Roozeboom and their disciples.
page 167 note 1 Berlin, Julius Springer, 1924.
page 167 note 2 Outline of Psychology, p. 448.
page 168 note 1 I cannot, of course, sketch the full development of modern psychological thought within the scope of this paper. And perhaps the English reader will not miss a lengthy exposition here, because the newer philosophy in England seems to me to have given much more attention to the question of personality than Continental philosophy has done.
page 168 note 2 “The Unity of Modern Problems,” April 1929.
page 170 note 1 At least if we identify “logic” with a finite number of syllogisms.
page 171 note 1 A closer investigation of the circumstances which constitute this experience cannot be given within this paper. Vide my paper, “The Necessity for a New Philosophy, and its Bearing on Missionary Work,” in The International Review of Missions of April 1930.
page 172 note 1 With the exception, however, of Plato. Vide his seventh Letter.