The Philosophy of "As If": A System of the Theoretical, Practical and Religious Fictions of Mankind by Hans Vaihinger, David G. Payne

The Philosophy of "As If": A System of the Theoretical, Practical and Religious Fictions of Mankind

Hans Vaihinger, David G. Payne

314 pages first pub 1911 (editions)

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Vaihinger... shows that thought is primarily a biological function turned into a conscious art. It is an art of adjustment, whose chief instrument is the construction of fictions by which men may manage to live. Thought is to be tested not by corr...

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