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> The central problem by which I have sought to illustrate method is the problem of the relation between the crude data of sense and the space, time, and matter of mathematical physics.

## current tendencies

Aristotelian logics in classical tradition of philosophy

Evolutionism developed from Darwinism

- its truth does not follow from what science has rendered probable concerning the facts of evolution
- motives and interests which inspires it are so exclusively practical, and the problems with which inspires it are so exclusively practical and the problems with it deals are so special, that it can hardly be regarded as really touching any of the questions that to \[his\] mind constitutes genuine philosophy
- Bergson’s finalism

Instincts and reasons are considered illusory, because the argument for philosophy under the realm of science are not necessarily dogmatic when grounded in facts and matters (p. 27)

Logical atomist that follows the theory of mathematics