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IN a public lecture recently given in London, Prof. Schlick, of Vienna, said that if philosophers had given more consideration to linguistics, the history of our civilisation would have been different. Indeed, it seems that only a realistic analysis of language could purify philosophy and the special sciences of much of their misleading verbiage. The modern schools of mathematical logicians have done useful work in this direction. Yet the developments of the present should not make us forget the attempts of the past. A thorough study of Bentham's “Theory of Fictions” will prove it to be a mine of information and suggestions. Mr. Ogden has done a real service to philosophy by publishing this book, which will be considered by many as a revelation and as a valuable basis for further research. The actual interest of Bentham's “Theory of Fictions” is enhanced by Mr. Ogden's very able introduction.
Bentham's Theory of Fictions.
C. K.
Ogden
By. (International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.) Pp. clii + 161 + 3 plates. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd., 1932.) 12s. 6d. net.
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G., T. Bentham's Theory of Fictions . Nature 131, 152 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/131152c0
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