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metaphysical attempts to construct Reality out of cate- 

 gories fails alike in its idealistic and materialistic forms, the 

 reversion to mysticism or Dogmatism is not justified. The 

 defects of the conceptual order are not due to eternal 

 and immutable limitations of. thought, but to faults in 

 its operation which criticism is overcoming. Stated gener- 

 ally, the aim of criticism is to effect a reconstruction of 

 the conceptual order by taking into account the conditions 

 of its development. This will be found to involve a 

 corresponding criticism of experience, and the methods of 

 using experience, and to point to that more far-reaching 

 reconstruction of our world which is being elaborated by 

 philosophy and by science in the modern period. 



