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Science and Abstraction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

L. J. Russell
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Extract

It is not only in science that abstraction is found as a method of dealing with the world, and we may profitably begin by showing its wide use in ordinary practical life.

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Philosophy , Volume 5 , Issue 17 , January 1930 , pp. 84 - 93
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1930

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References

page 84 note 1 Marett, R. R., Anthropology, p. 139Google Scholar (Home University Library).

page 84 note 2 Ibid., p. 141.

page 88 note 1 Cf.Smith, N. Kemp, “The Fruitfulness of the Abstract,” Proc. Arist. Soc., 1927–1928.Google Scholar

page 91 note 1 The Nature of the Physical World, p. 251 f.

page 92 note 1 Cf. MissStebbing, L. S., “Abstraction and Science,” Journal of Philosophical Studies, 01 1927.Google Scholar