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 A Quarterly Magazine 



Devoted to the Philosophy of Science. 

 Each copy contains 160 pages; original 

 articles, correspondence from- foreign 

 countries, discussions, and book reviews 



The Monist Advocates the 

 Philosophy of Science 



Which is an application of the scientific method to 

 philosophy. The old philosophical systems were 

 mere air-castles (constructions of abstract theories), 

 built in the realm of pure thought. The Philosophy 

 of Science is a eystematization of positive facts; it 

 takes experience as its foundation, and uses the 

 systematized formal relations of experience (mathe- 

 matics, logic, etc.) as its method. It is opposed on 

 the one hand to the dogmatism of groundless a priori 

 assumptions, and on the other hand, to the scepticism 

 of negation which finds expression in the agnostic 

 tendencies of to-day. 



Monism Means a Unitary 

 World - Conception 



There may be different aspects and even contrasts, 

 diverse views and opposite standpoints, but there can 

 never be contradiction in truth. Monism is not a 

 one-substance theory, be it materialistic or spiritual- 

 istic or agnostic; it means simply and solely CON- 

 SISTENCY. All truths form one consistent system, and 

 any dualism of irreconcilable statements indicates 

 that there is a problem to be solved; there must be 

 fault somewhere either in our reasoning or in our 

 knowledge of facts. Science always implies Monism, 

 i. e., a unitary world-conception. 



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