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Wilhelm Ostwald. Natural Philosophy
Natural Philosophy
Table of Contents
PREFACE
INTRODUCTION
PART I. GENERAL THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE
1. The Formation of Concepts
2. Science
3. The Aim of Science
4. Concrete and Abstract
5. The Subjective Part
6. Empirical Concepts
7. Simple and Complex Concepts
8. The Conclusion
9. The Natural Laws
10. The Law of Causation
11. The Purification of the Causal Relation
12. Induction
13. Deduction
14. Ideal Cases
15. The Determinateness of Things
16. The Freedom of the Will
17. The Classification of the Sciences
18. The Applied Sciences
PART II. LOGIC, THE SCIENCE OF THE MANIFOLD, AND MATHEMATICS
19. The Most General Concept
20. Association
21. The Group
22. Negation
23. Artificial and Natural Groups
24. Arrangement of the Members
25. Numbers
26. Arithmetic, Algebra, and the Theory of Numbers
27. Co-ordination
28. Comparison
29. Counting
30. Signs and Names
31. The Written Language
32. Pasigraphy and Sound Writing
33. Sound Writing
34. The Science of Language
35. Continuity
36. Measurement
37. The Function
38. The Application of the Functional Relation
39. The Law of Continuity
40. Time and Space
41. Recapitulation
PART III. THE PHYSICAL SCIENCES
42. General
43. Mechanics
44. Kinetic Energy
45. Mass and Matter
46. Energetic Mechanics
47. The Mechanistic Theories
48. Complementary Branches of Mechanics
49. The Theory of Heat
50. The Second Fundamental Principle
51. Electricity and Magnetism
52. Light
53. Chemical Energy
PART IV. THE BIOLOGIC SCIENCES
54. Life
55. The Storehouse of Free Energy
56. The Soul
57. Feeling, Thinking, Acting
58. Society
59. Language and Intercourse
60. Civilization
Footnote
INDEX
