NTENTS. 



CHAPTEE I. 



1. Introduction. The term " scientific " has a general and a 

 special application. The determination of the latter is 

 aimed at in Chapters I and II 1 



2. Science is a conative process directed towards the Objective. 

 The Objective includes those objects of thought which 

 must be considered " prior " to our thinking. Sameness 

 for all and relevance to purpose are secondary marks of 

 them 4 



3. The Objective contains physical exis tents, psychical 

 existents and subsistents. Comparison with Meinong's 

 Objekte and Objective ... ... ... ... ... ... 7 



4. The " plain man's " view of the physical world. How far 



are its elements Objective ? 10 



5. The secondary qualities are equally Objective with the 

 primary qualities ; but the recognition of this fact 

 renders necessary a rectification of the common view oO 

 the Thing ... .,... ... 11 



6. Nevertheless the Thing is Objective, being a whole com- 

 posed of Objective qualities in an Objective relational 

 nexus ... ^T 15 



7. There is no question of the Objectivity of psychical 



existents ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 20' 



8. We turn therefore to the consideration of the fact that the 

 elements of the Objective occur in series sometimes 

 discrete, sometimes compact, sometimes continuous ... 21 



9. The importance of the number series is due to the ease 

 with which its terms can be correlated with those of 

 other series ; but when the correlation is to be with a 

 compact series the original discrete number series must 

 be supplemented ... ... ... ... ... ... 24 



10. These supplemental numbers (vulgar or decimal fractions) 

 were invented in connection with the problem of measure- 

 ment a problem which we must analyse briefly ... ... 26 



11. The spatial and temporal series present special character- 

 istics : the former, for example, is tri-dimensional ... 29 



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