The Philosophy of Evolution / Together With a Preliminary Essay on The Metaphysical Basis of Science
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"The Philosophy of Evolution Together With a Preliminary Essay on The Metaphysical Basis of Science" are scientific papers read before The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Art and Letters by Stephen Haskins Carpenter. In this work, Stephen Haskins notes that "all knowledge is essentially one. The object-matter upon which intellect exerts itself does not affect the subjective act of knowing. Physics, when stripped of that which is merely contingent, becomes metaphysics. Physical science deals with object-matter, and discusses the signs by which nature communicates her message—that is, phenomena. ...
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- PHILOSOPHY OF EVOLUTION
- TOGETHER WITH A PRELIMINARY ESSAY ON
- THE METAPHYSICAL BASIS OF SCIENCE.
- TWO PAPERS
- Read before The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters at the Annual Meetings of February, 1873 and February, 1874.
- STEPHEN H. CARPENTER, LL. D.,
- Professor of Logic, etc., in the University of Wisconsin, and President of the Department of Speculative Philosophy in the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.
- [Reprinted From the Academy's Transactions.]
- MADISON, WIS.: ATWOOD & CULVER, PRINTERS AND STEREOTYPERS. 1874.
- THE METAPHYSICAL BASIS OF SCIENCE.
- THE PHILOSOPHY OF EVOLUTION.
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