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The Problem of Physical Reality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

W. H. Werkmeister
W. H. Werkmeister*
Affiliation:
University of Nebraska
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Extract

In his recently published book, The Nature of Physical Reality (5), Professor Margenau develops a conception of physical reality, which, on the one hand, is a repudiation of radical empiricism (5: 28) and which, on the other hand, is a denial of realism (5: 47). Margenau believes that he has accomplished his task by means of “constructs” which, in “a large area of discourse,” are “wholly synonymous” with concepts and which, nevertheless, when verified, are “the external objects” (5: 70–71; 296).

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy of Science , Volume 19 , Issue 3 , July 1952 , pp. 214 - 224
Copyright
Copyright © 1952, The Williams & Wilkins Company

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Footnotes

1

A paper read on March 15, 1951 before the Philosophy Club of Harvard University.

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