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tional concept.--The concept of the "radical" and the theories
of "composite radicals."--The reconstruction of the systematic
form of chemistry.--The periodic system of the elements.--
Chemistry and mathematics 		203
IX. The concept of natural science and "reality."--Rickert's theory
of the scientific construction of concepts.--Criticism of Rickert's
theory.--Word-meanings and mathematical concepts.--Rickert's
confusion of "meanings" and "presentations."--The concept as
the expression of individual relations.--The problem of the con-
stants of natural science.--Magnitudes and other forms of
relations 		220
PART II

THE SYSTEM OF RELATIONAL CONCEPTS AND THE PROBLEM
OF REALITY
CHAPTER V
ON THE PROBLEM OF INDUCTION
I. The metaphysical tendency in induction and deduction.--The
empirical theory of judgment.--Mach's "thought-experiment."--
Criticism of Mach's theory.--Locke's theory of empirical judg-
ment.--The "element of eternity" in all empirical judgment.--
The postulate of necessary determinateness.--Judgments of
perception and judgments of experience.--Experience as aggre-
gate and as system.--Discrete and continuous "wholes."--In-
duction and the theory of invariants.--Induction and analogy 		237
II. Induction and analysis, "compositive" and "resolutive" methods.
--Experiment as the means of analysis.--The relation of "uni-
versa!" and "particular" relations.--" Isolation" and "super-
position."--Laws and rules.--The concept of the "fundamental"
relation and the relation of mathematical necessity.--The two
fundamental types of knowledge 		252
III. The problem of laws of nature.--Laws and constants.--The general
form of experience.--The concept of the a priori and the "invari-
ants of experience." 		265
CHAPTER VI

THE CONCEPT OF REALITY
I. The separation of "subjective" and "objective" reality.--The
development of the concepts of objectivity and subjectivity.--
Changing and constant elements of experience.--The subjectivity
of the sensuous qualities.--The series of degrees of objectivity.
The logical gradations of the contents of experience.--The prob-lem of transcendence.--The meaning of judgment.--The "tran-
scending" of sensuous experience.--The concept of "represen-
tation."--Transformation of the concept of representation and
progress to the "whole of experience."--Association as a prin-
ciple of explanation

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Publication Information: Book Title: Substance and Function and Einstein's Theory of Relativity. Contributors: Ernst Cassirer - author, Marie Collins Swabey - transltr, William Curtis Swabey - transltr. Publisher: Dover Publications. Place of Publication: New York. Publication Year: 1953. Page Number: x.
    
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