Foundations of Geometry and Induction
Foundations of Geometry and Induction
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几何和归纳法基础
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T. G.
那些认识已故让·尼科德的人会很高兴拥有他的两部主要作品的译本；然而，这本书本身将会引起更多读者的兴趣，因为它讨论的问题本身以及作者为解决这些问题做出的原创和有价值的贡献。在讨论“感性世界中的几何”时，尼科德从感知数据出发，试图推导出可以在其上构建的各种几何，这种方法与怀特海教授的“广泛抽象”完全相反。为了这个非常有趣的方法的逻辑发展，作者向我们展示了一种逐渐被赋予越来越复杂的感官的动物，并试图逐渐建立起他的感觉的几何世界。他以这种方式获得了一些引人注目的结论，这些结论强化了反对康德哲学的论据，并充分说明了符号逻辑与经验之间的关系。事实上，尼科德提出的方法应该成为研究数学和外部世界问题的经典方法。《几何与归纳法的基础》，作者：让·尼科德。包含感性世界中的几何，以及归纳的逻辑问题。菲利普·保罗·维纳翻译。 （国际心理学、哲学和科学方法图书馆。）Pp。 iv + 286。（伦敦：Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.；纽约：Harcourt, Brace and Co.，1929。）16s。网。
THOSE who knew the late Jean Nicod will be glad to have this translation of his two main works; yet the book itself will interest a much larger circle of readers, because of the very problems it discusses and because of the original and valuable contributions made by the author towards their solution. In discussing “Geometry in the Sensible World”, Nicod starts from data of perception and tries to derive the various geometries that can be built on them, a method which is quite the inverse of Prof. Whitehead's ‘extensive abstraction’. For the logical development of this very interesting method, the author shows us an animal which is endowed successively with more and more complex senses, and tries to build up gradually the geometrical world of his sensations. He obtains in this way some remarkable conclusions which strengthen the case against Kantian philosophy, and illustrate to the full the relations between symbolic logic and experience. Indeed, the line of approach suggested by Nicod is one which ought to become classical in the investigation of the problems concerning mathematics and the external world.Foundations of Geometry and Induction.By Jean Nicod. Containing Geometry in the Sensible World, and The Logical Problem of Induction. Translated by Philip Paul Wiener. (International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.) Pp. iv + 286. (London: Kegan Paul and Co., Ltd.; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1929.) 16s. net.