Philosophy as Scientia Scientiarum —— And a History of Classifications of the Sciences

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ISBN: 9781330162125 出版年:2016 页码:351 Robert Flint Forgotten Books

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Very little requires to be referred to here. The Table of Contents should render unnecessary any Index of Names. The author's connection with the subject of his book has been a lengthened one. When a mere youth in Glasgow University he joined a number of young men, among whom were representative Cana dians, Englishmen, Welshmen, and others, in forming a Literary and Philosophical Society. As a member and vice-president his contributions to it were two essays, one on Cartesianism and the other on The Relations of the Sciences. The former cost him a study of two hundred old books in Latin and French, but it soon got lost and never returned to him. The latter he still possesses, and deems on the whole fairly accurate so far as it goes. His dealing with such a subject at all he attributes to the inspiration of the greatest of his teachers, the Professor William Thom son of the time, the Lord Kelvin of to-day and of all time. My study on the Relations of the Sciences 'i'

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Birger Hjørland

This reprint is a disappointment. Instead of a book (as the original) you get a small pamphlet without spine title. The publisher writes:"We scanned this book using character recognition software that includes an automated spell check. [...]. After we retypeset and design a book [here in three columns!], the number change so the old index and table of contents no longer work. Therefore we often remove them [as in this book]."Other editions are books with 360 pages, this is just 74 pages.Books like this only serve scholarly purposes, and with this policy they cannot be used to quote because of the missing reference to original pages. Besides the author, Flint, wrote that the table of content is important and partly replaces an index.When buying this book you get access to the original scanned book online (with page numbers), but why then obtain this printed version?

Birger Hjørland

This reprint is a disappointment. Instead of a book (as the original) you get a small pamphlet without spine title. The publisher writes:"We scanned this book using character recognition software that includes an automated spell check. [...]. After we retypeset and design a book [here in three columns!], the number change so the old index and table of contents no longer work. Thefoefore we often remove them [as in this book]."Books like this only serve scholarly purposes, and with this policy the cannot be used to quote because of the missing reference to original pages. Besides the author, Flint, wrote that the table of content is important and partly replaces an index.

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