ABSTRACT
Cornforth thinks that the advance of science provides the means for the solution of the problems of philosophy. Cornforth never explains or discusses the phrase exists independently. The difference between images and physical objects is not a difference of words. Cornforth argues that science has shown that material things exist independently of consciousness, since it has shown that all thought and all consciousness depends on the brain. Cornforth speaks of a view of the nature of the world which science gives us grounds for accepting, in contrast to metaphysical views of the world like those of logical atomism. By logical atomism Cornforth means the views expressed in Russells our knowledge of the external world and in Wittgensteins Tractatus. The task of philosophy, Cornforth says, is to show that science solves the problems of philosophy.
