THE MONIST 



A Quarterly Magazine 



rr^ H M N S P.r"». 



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 Bcientific method to 

 philoBophy. 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 systematization 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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