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THESE two books both advocate logical realism, as opposed to the conceptualism or nominalism which has been fashionable in Western thought since the fourteenth century. Undoubtedly universals are concepts, but concepts are not generic images, as Prof. Cohen points out ; nor are universals merely concepts if they play their parts successfully. Undoubtedly names are special kinds of universals, but to say that universals are merely names is to make knowledge illusory.
A Preface to Logic
By Morris R. Cohen. Pp. xix + 202. (London: George Routledge and Sons, Ltd., 1946.) 8s. 6d. net.
The Revival of Realism : Critical Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
By James Feibleman. Pp. vii + 333. (Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1946.) 22s. net.
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RITCHIE, A. A Preface to Logic The Revival of Realism : Critical Studies in Contemporary Philosophy. Nature 161, 623–624 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/161623b0
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