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Historically, the term ‘metaphysics’ has been synonymous with the demand for a system, for all great metaphysicians of the past have attempted to solve the problem of the transcendental through the construction of a system. But I do not believe that this approach is possible or meaningful today.
This topic was set for discussion at the conference of the Kant Society in Halle, June 5, 1925. The present article is an expanded version of the lecture given by the author on that occasion.
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Bertrand Russell, Our Knowledge of the External World, London, 1914.
Note that no probability inference is drawn from the fact of sensations about the existence of things; rather, probability inference takes place entirely on the sensation side and moves from experienced sensations to those to be experienced in the future. On the contrary, we are asserting here that this process as a whole is equivalent to the metaphysical hypothesis of the existence of the external world.
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Reichenbach, M., Cohen, R.S. (1978). Metaphysics and Natural Science [1925a]. In: Reichenbach, M., Cohen, R.S. (eds) Hans Reichenbach Selected Writings 1909–1953. Vienna Circle Collection, vol 4a. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-9761-5_33
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