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(pp. 189-226), and the whole of Part II. (pp. 266-339) of the 

 philosophical section as the most important final results of 

 my analysis, and therefore especially invite criticism of them. 

 The last named part is, so to speak, the keystone of the 

 whole building, and is written from an unusual point of 

 view. I possess German manuscripts of the theoretical 

 contents of this part dated as early as 1895 and 1897; 

 but I always delayed publishing as the subject is extremely 

 subtle. 



The philosophical terminology employed in this work is 

 that in general use. Nobody can feel more strongly than 

 myself how greatly we need a new and immediate de- 

 nomination of philosophical concepts a " characteristica 

 universalis " in the sense of Leibniz. But this work was 

 not the right place to introduce it, and there was nothing 

 to adopt from others, for modern " symbolic logic "' so far 

 relates only to formalities. I must therefore ask the reader 

 to understand by the terms " substance," " causality," 

 " objective," etc. etc., nothing but what he is instructed by 

 my definitions, and not to confuse what I have said with 

 what I might have said but did not. I ask the reader to 

 understand my words as they are written, and to conceive 

 the problems only as they are stated, and not as the 

 terminology steeped as it is in historical reminiscences- 

 might possibly suggest. 



It should never be forgotten that this work is a 



