World Hypotheses: A Study in Evidence

书籍介绍(英文)

"World hypotheses" correspond to metaphysical systems, and they may be systematically judged by the canons of evidence and corroboration.
In setting forth his root-metaphor theory and examining six such hypotheses--animism, mysticism, formism, mechanism, contextualism, and organicism--Pepper surveys the whole field of metaphysics. Because this book is an analytical study, it stresses issues rather than men. It seeks to exhibit the sources of these issues and to show that some are unnecessary; that the rest gather into clusters and are interconnected in systems corresponding closely to the traditional schools of philosophy. The virtue of the root-metaphor method is that it puts metaphysics on a purely factual basis and pushes philosophical issues back to the interpretation of evidence.
This book was written primarily as a contribution to the field, but its plan excellently suits it for use as a text in courses in metaphysics, types of philosophical theory, or present tendencies in philosophy.


“世界假设”对应于形而上学体系，他们可能有系统的证据佐证的大炮和判断。
在提出他的根隐喻理论和审查6这些假设-万物有灵论，神秘主义，形式主义，机制，语境和机体-辣椒调查形而上学的整个领域。由于这本书是一项分析研究，它强调的问题，而不是男人。它旨在展示这些问题的根源，显示有些是不必要的，这其余收集到集群系统，并在相应的密切合作，以哲学的传统学校相互联系的。根德，比喻法，那么它就是一个纯粹的事实根据的形而上学和哲学问题推回到了证据的解释。
写这本书主要是为外地的贡献，但它的计划非常出色适合作为形而上学的一个课程，在文字中使用它，类型的哲学理论，哲学或目前倾向。