ic Interest 123
Sect. 43. Skill as Free 123
Sect. 44. Skill as Social 126
Sect. 45. Science for Accommodation and Construction 127
Sect. 46. Method and Fundamental Conceptions of Natural Science.
The Descriptive Method 128
Sect. 47. Space, Time, and Prediction 130
Sect. 48. The Quantitative Method 132
Sect. 49. The General Development of Science 134
Sect. 50. The Determination of the Limits of Natural Science 135
Sect. 51. Natural Science is Abstract 136
Sect. 52. The Meaning of Abstractness in Truth 139
Sect. 53. But Scientific Truth is Valid for Reality 142
Sect. 54. Relative Practical Value of Science and Philosophy 143

PART II

THE SPECIAL PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY

CHAPTER VI. METAPHYSICS AND EPISTEMOLOGY 149

Sect. 55. The Impossibility of an Absolute Division of the
Problem of Philosophy 149
Sect. 56. The Dependence of the Order of Philosophical Problems
upon the Initial Interest 152
Sect. 57. Philosophy as the Interpretation of Life 152
Sect. 58. Philosophy as the Extension of Science 154
Sect. 59. The Historical Differentiation of the Philosophical
Problem 155
Sect. 60. Metaphysics Seeks a Most Fundamental Conception 157
Sect. 61. Monism and Pluralism 159
Sect. 62. Ontology and Cosmology Concern Being and Process 159
Sect. 63. Mechanical and Teleological Cosmologies 160
Sect. 64. Dualism 162
Sect. 65. The New Meaning of Monism and Pluralism 163
Sect. 66. Epistemology Seeks to Understand the Possibility of
Knowledge 164
Sect. 67. Scepticism, Dogmatism, and Agnosticism 166
Sect. 68. The Source and Criterion of Knowledge according to
Empiricism and Rationalism. Mysticism 168
Sect. 69. Th