Natural Philosophy

=19. The Most General Concept.= If we try to conceive the whole structure of science according to the principle of the increasing complexity of concepts, the first question whic...

=1. The Formation of Concepts.= To the human mind, as it slowly awakens in every child, the world at first seems a chaos consisting of mere individual experiences. The only conn...

=54. Life.= Among the bodies in our environment that are ponderable and have mass the animate beings are so strikingly distinguished from the inanimate that in most cases we hav...

=42. General.= In the formal sciences we began the specialization of the object from the most general concept of thing conceivable, possessing no other characteristic attribute...

Natural science and natural philosophy are not two provinces mutually exclusive of each other. They belong together. They are like two roads leading to the same goal. This goal...