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THIS pamphlet, by the veteran leader of Italian posi tivism, is issued in translation by a devoted admirer and disciple who wishes to find an English helper in the translation and publication of other works by the “great master.” Its argument is directed against those opponents who, on behalf of modern idealism, contend that in positivism there is to be found this fundamental fault—namely, that, according to the method which the positivist has prescribed to himself, the subject ought, in his system, to become an object which cannot have, therefore, any of the character istics belonging to subjectiveness. Prof. Ardigo,—as St. George to the dragon of metaphysics, develops a subtle and closely reasoned argument for a positivist treatment of psychology, criticising the positions asso ciated with the names of Bergson and Boutroux. He is also careful to show that positivism differs widely from materialism, with which there is very naturally—a tendency to confound it. The substance of this pamphlet is contained in the second part of volume x. of Ardigo's “Philosophical Works.”
An Inconsistent Preliminary Objection against Positivism.
By Prof. Robert Ardigo. Translated by Emilio Gavirati. Pp. 52. (Cambridge: W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd., 1910.) Price 1s. net.
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An Inconsistent Preliminary Objection against Positivism . Nature 84, 461 (1910). https://doi.org/10.1038/084461a0
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