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Meaning and Error1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

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In the problem of Meaning and Error, Epistemology, Logic, Psychology, and Etymology, all find an inevitable point of contact. It is necessary to go back little more than half a century to see something of the changes which have resulted in the present epoch of disintegration.

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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1929

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page 241 note 2 “The dragons slain by our metaphysical St. George (F. H. Bradley) were those of atomism and its allies in all their various forms. One famous chapter destroys associationism in logic and psychology; another, the mechanical doctrine of the formal syllogism; another, the logic of a classification which is of fixed, immobile particulars. Truth and reality are not to be looked for in any separate thing. ‘The Truth is the whole’ “ ("Spinoza in Recent English Thought,” by Roth, L. , Mind, vol. xxxvi, No. 142, 04, 1928).Google Scholar

page 241 note 3 We are forced, therefore, to go beyond the mere correlation of the mental with these neural processes and to identify them” (Space, Time and Deity, vol. ii, p. 5).Google Scholar

page 241 note 4 Textbook of Psychology, p. 464.

page 241 note 5 Some Problems of Philosophy, p. 53.

page 242 note 1 An Introduction to Metaphysics, p. 18.

page 242 note 2 “The Organic Growth of the Concept as One of the Factors in Intelligence,” British Journal of Psychology, July, 1928.

page 244 note 1 Aphasia and Kindred Disorders of Speech (Cambridge University Press), 1926, 2 vols.

page 244 note 2 For an admirable summary of recent work and views on this subject, vide Thought and the Brain, by Henri Piéron, International Library of Psychology, etc. (Kegan Paul), 1927.

page 244 note 3 Sir Thomas Browne’s Pseudodoxia or Vulgar Errors is a classical example of the examination of such obsessions.

page 245 note 1 Elements in Thought and Emotion (1923). The Neural Substrata of Reflective Thought,” British Journal of Medical Psychology, vol. v, part 2, 1925.Google Scholar