The Philosophy of As if | Hans Vaihinger | Taylor & Francis eBooks, Re

ABSTRACT

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part |14 pages

GENERAL INTRODUCTION

chapter I|8 pages

Thought, considered from the point of view of a purposive organic Function

chapter II|2 pages

Thought as an Art, Logic as Technology (a collection of technical rules of art)

chapter III|3 pages

The Difference between the Artifices and the Rules of Thought

chapter IV|3 pages

The Transition to Fictions

part I|164 pages

BASIC PRINCIPLES

chapter A|61 pages

THE ENUMERATION AND DIVISION OF SCIENTIFIC FICTIONS

chapter I|3 pages

Artificial Classification

chapter II|6 pages

Abstractive (Neglective) Fictions

chapter III|4 pages

Schematic, Paradigmatic, Utopian and Type Fictions

chapter IV|6 pages

Symbolic (Analogical) Fictions

chapter V|3 pages

JURISTIC FICTIONS

chapter VI|3 pages

Personiflcatory Fictions

chapter VII|2 pages

Summational Fictions

chapter VIII|4 pages

Heuristic Fictions

chapter IX|9 pages

Practical (Ethical) Fictions

chapter X|4 pages

The Fundamental Fictional Concepts of Mathematics

chapter XI|3 pages

The Method of Abstract Generalization

chapter XII|6 pages

The Method of Unjustified Transference

chapter XIII|4 pages

The Concept of Infinity ( With some General Remarks IJn Critical Positiuisni)

chapter XIV|7 pages

Matter and the Sensory World of Ideas

chapter XV|3 pages

The Atom as a Fiction

chapter XVI|2 pages

Fictions in Mechanics and Mathematical Physics

chapter XVII|3 pages

Things-in-themselves

chapter XVIII|1 pages

The Absolute

chapter B|57 pages

THE LOGICAL THEORY OF SCIENTIFIO FICTIONS

chapter XIX|4 pages

Introductory Remarks on the Position of Fictions and Semi-fictions in the Logical System as a Whole

chapter XX|4 pages

The Separation of Scientific from other JlictioDS, particularly from the lEsthetic

chapter XXI|6 pages

The Difference between Fiction and Hypothesis

chapter XXII|5 pages

The Linguistic Form of the Fiction. Analysis of "As-if"

chapter XXIII|2 pages

Collection of Expressions for 'Fiction'

chapter XXIV|4 pages

The Main Oharacteristics of Fictions

chapter XXV|9 pages

Outline of a General Theory of Pictional Oonstructs

chapter XXVI|16 pages

The Method of Oorrecting Arbitrary Differences or the Method of ADtithetic Error

chapter XXVII|11 pages

The Law of Ideational Shifts

chapter C|22 pages

CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE HISTORY AND THEORY OF FIOTIONS

chapter XXVIII|5 pages

The Fiction in Greek Scientific Procedure

chapter XXIX|5 pages

Beginnings of a Theory of Fictions among the Greeks

chapter XXX|2 pages

The Use of the Fiction among the Romans

chapter XXXI|2 pages

Beginnings of a Theory of Fictions among the Romans

chapter XXXII|2 pages

Medieval Terminology

chapter XXXIII|9 pages

The Use of FictioDs in Modern Time

chapter XXXIV|3 pages

The Theory of Fictions in Modern Times

chapter D|22 pages

CONSEQUENCES FOR THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE

chapter XXXV|3 pages

The Basic Problem of the Theory of Knowledge

chapter XXXVI|5 pages

The Falsification of Reality by the Logical Functions (Logical Optimism, Pessimism and Criticism)

chapter XXXVII|9 pages

Categories as Fictions ( Witlt a General Discussion of the Practical Purpose of Thought)

chapter XXXVIII|4 pages

Categories as Analogical Fictions

chapter XXXIX|4 pages

The Practical Utility of the Fiction of Categories

part II|92 pages

AMPLIFIED STUDY OF SPECIAL PROBLEMS

chapter 1|4 pages

Artiflcial Classification

chapter 2|3 pages

Further Artificial Clssifications

chapter 3|4 pages

Adam Smith's Method in Political Economy

chapter 4|2 pages

Bentham's Method in Political Science

chapter 5|3 pages

Abstractive Fictional Methods in Physics and Psychology

chapter 6|4 pages

Condillac's Imaginary Statue'

chapter 7|2 pages

Lotze's 'Hypothetical Animal'

chapter 8|2 pages

Other Examples of Fictitious Isolation

chapter 9|3 pages

The Fiction of Force

chapter 10|2 pages

Matter and Materialism as Mental Accessories

chapter 11|6 pages

Abstract Ooncepts as Fictions

chapter 12|6 pages

General Ideas &s Fictions

chapter 13|4 pages

Summational, Nominal, and Substitutive Fictions

chapter 14|2 pages

Natural Forces and Natural Laws as Fictions

chapter 15|1 pages

Schematic Fictions

chapter 16|1 pages

Illustrative Fictions

chapter 17|6 pages

The Atomic Theory as a Fiction

chapter 18|6 pages

Fictions in Mathematical Physics

chapter 19|7 pages

The Fiction of Pure Absolute Space

chapter 20|3 pages

Surface, Line, Point, etc., as Fictions

chapter 21|10 pages

The Fiction of the Infinitely Small

chapter 22|11 pages

The History of the Infinitesimal Fiction

chapter 23|5 pages

The Meaning of the 'As-if' Approach

chapter 24|7 pages

THE FICTIVE JUDGMENT

chapter 25|5 pages

The Fiction contrasted with the Hypothesis

part III|92 pages

HISTORICAL CONFIRMATIONS

chapter A|48 pages

KANT'S USE OF THE 'AS IF' METHOD

chapter B|9 pages

FORBERG, THE ORIGINA.TOR OF THE FICHTEAN ATHEISM - CONTROVERSY, AND HIS RELIGION OF AS-IF

chapter C|13 pages

LANGE'S "STANDPOINT OF THE IDEAL"

chapter D|22 pages

NIETZSCHE AND HIS DOCTRINE OF CONSCIOUS ILLUSION (The Will to Illusion)