Abstract
THE publication of English and German translations of Dr. Meyerson's work (1908) is a somewhat tardy recognition of its importance. The present versions are based on the third edition of 1926, which is practically that of 1912 with notes on subsequent developments in science. Although this may seem to restrict the value of the book, the additions accord sufficiently well with the author's analytical investigation of the two cardinal principles which research has once again thrust into the fore-front of debate—universal causation, and universal conformity to natural law. What constitutes the ultimate ground of their presumed universality? Is it the inductive outcome of observation and experiment, always imperilled, therefore, by the Damoclean sword of revolutionary discovery or even the negative instance? Or does its validity consist in some quite irrefutable, and in a sense a priori, characteristic of thought, which finds an adequate foundation in the very structure of reality?
Identity and Reality.
Émile Meyerson. Authorized translation by Kate Loewenberg. (Library of Philosophy.) Pp. 495. (London: George Allen and Unwin, Ltd.; New York: The Macmillan Co., 1930.) 16s. net.
Identität und Wirklichkeit.
Émile Meyerson. Deutsch von Kurt Grelling nach der 3 Auflage des Originals. Eingeleitet und mit Anmerkungen versehen von Prof. Leon Lichtenstein. Pp. xl + 534. (Leipzig: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H., 1930.) 21 gold marks.
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TURNER, J. Identity and Reality Identität und Wirklichkeit . Nature 126, 305–306 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126305a0
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