Experience and Its ModesThis classic work is here published for the first time in paperback in recognition of its enduring importance. Its theme is Modality: human experience recognized as a variety of independent, self-consistent worlds of discourse, each the invention of human intelligence, but each also to be understood as abstract and an arrest in human experience. The theme is pursued in a consideration of the practical, the historical and the scientific modes of understanding. |
Contents
Introduction page | 1 |
Practical Experience cont | 6 |
Experience and its Modes | 9 |
Historical Experience | 86 |
Scientific Experience | 169 |
Practical Experience | 247 |
Conclusion | 322 |
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