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SED geen comt Ponerhive hapradegunes V phe frp fn what seal refs ne hurd, 345 O vary \ Gomme oT ‘THE PRINCIPLES OF THE SUBJECT OF THIS SCIENCE eseon I Ngcience and | The many meanings of the terms ngcientifio", What is meant by the tnatter" and "subject" of a science. This hes already een established in Logic, put deserves brief repetition heres In one sense the subject sgt and bests in another it is least of a science is known fir: ngubject" and "object" known and last. Difference betwee? ween formal end material object and subject. mis science presupposes all Of Logic, dialectical, Fee aeeioitoti reece ee eae denonstratives and Mathematics. Why, in particular, dialectic? re Whether the latter 1s ‘confined to mere opinion, Ost oy wna allows the possibility of the contradictory a part of 2 statements of a sciences bet' the subject of the present sciences Sense expe hence and the three nodes of definition, Impossibility of & fourth node, General division of the seiences, and the ¢ this division. Definition whether it is sensible principle 0! nyith sensible matter". tgensible matter"+ What is meant by { sensible", Whether sensible | per_se, Various meanings © matter can b gn (adington)- ye called “mind-stuf: this science is presupposed te Metaphysics, and why the letter can be taught apparently without and why Jor. A question of words, ‘heir sovereign —— \ SS hh it is possible \ | importefords without knowing what POY, ‘mean, and use a yat is not known as if it webs ‘and to use what | vay Jou, a6 if it wore note Wy nS ‘is more the 1 aren hilosophy than in any other case page. The examples of "matter! and "form", oF iteubstance and "abstraction" Tnowledge of nature is resented, wy ie adnittedly, Metaphysics ie the most "free" of | ‘the sciences. thee The difference between "sensible matter" and “intelligible matter"; between "singular", "common", and universal matter", Whether these distinctions science and Mathematics. Whether everything defined remain relevant in the present context of natural se "with sensible matter" is sensible, Whether there can be science of the singular. The difference between science of the universal and science of the singular. Can there be science of * nature without dependance on the singular? Whether knowledge of the singular is the term of science, Whether the present science is speculative or practical, Whether measurement is a practical opera~ tion. Whether the use of practical device makes the science practical. In what the method of exposition #f the Physics » resembles that of Mathematics, which proceeds "dis~ ciplinabiliter", Why natural science is said to proceed "rationally" according to the third mode of "rational process" (the first being logical, the second dialectical.) Whether this excludes the first ‘two modes. Whether definitions are free. Whether every definition must explain what a thing is in itself, Whether this science proceeds from definitions, from induction, or from both, Whether all induction is a principle of science. Whether all natural doctrine is experimental, and all doctrine scientific, 4, The various parts of the study of nature and their order. The proper subjects of these parts: (a) mobile being in general and its main divisions; (b) local movement in particular, and the idea of universe; (c) movement according to quality, Leading to absolute becoming and destfuction; (d) movement according to quantity, i.e. growth, and the intrinsic principle pete ie fy eta a hve poet text shale of Wecaoe 2

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