Natural Philosophy

Name: Natural Philosophy
Author: Wilhelm Ostwald

by Wilhelm Ostwald

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NATURAL PHILOSOPHY
PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I GENERAL THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
1. The Formation of Concepts.
2. Science.
3. The Aim of Science.
4. Concrete and Abstract.
5. The Subjective Part.
6. Empirical Concepts.
7. Simple and Complex Concepts.
8. The Conclusion.
9. The Natural Laws.
10. The Law of Causation.
11. The Purification of the Causal Relation.
12. Induction.
13. Deduction.
14. Ideal Cases.
15. The Determinateness of Things.
16. The Freedom of the Will.
17. The Classification of the Sciences.
18. The Applied Sciences.
PART II LOGIC, THE SCIENCE OF THE MANIFOLD, AND MATHEMATICS
19. The Most General Concept.
20. Association.
21. The Group.
22. Negation.
23. Artificial and Natural Groups.
24. Arrangement of the Members.
25. Numbers.
26. Arithmetic, Algebra, and the Theory of Numbers.
27. Co-ordination.
28. Comparison.
29. Counting.
30. Signs and Names.
31. The Written Language.
32. Pasigraphy and Sound Writing.
33. Sound Writing.
34. The Science of Language.
35. Continuity.
36. Measurement.
37. The Function.
38. The Application of the Functional Relation.
39. The Law of Continuity.
40. Time and Space.
41. Recapitulation.
PART III THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES
42. General.
43. Mechanics.
44. Kinetic Energy.
45. Mass and Matter.
46. Energetic Mechanics.
47. The Mechanistic Theories.
48. Complementary Branches of Mechanics.
49. The Theory of Heat.
50. The Second Fundamental Principle.
51. Electricity and Magnetism.
52. Light.
53. Chemical Energy.
PART IV THE BIOLOGIC SCIENCES
54. Life.
55. The Storehouse of Free Energy.
56. The Soul.
57. Feeling, Thinking, Acting.
58. Society.
59. Language and Intercourse.
60. Civilization.
FOOTNOTES:
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