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Excerpt from The Necessary and the Contingent in the Aristotelian System But we must insist that this multiplication of words and so of things is purely a practical device for practical - not theoretical ends, and is, therefore, justified only of its children; justified, that is, only in the service it actually performs in the enrichment of experience. Yet this practical enrichment results in theoretical embarrassment if it merely erects new facts instead of reconstructing the one fact. From this point of view we may judge the folly of that inane prae tice which endeavors to cashier every new experience by merely naming it. My sophisticated friend, for example, who dashed my youthful rapture at the sight of an extraordinary meteorological phenomenon by calmly labeling it sun-dogs rendered me thereby, if possible, somewhat less a philosopher without making me a better scientist. If he could have shown me from those four seeming suns were one, and from the presence of ice crystals in the atmosphere was just the meaning of that gorgeous pageantry of rival parhelia and broken solar halos, he might have accomplished something more worthy of his vaunted knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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