Ideas, Concepts, and Reality

180 Pages·2013·3.46 MB·English

by  John W. Burbidge

ideas, concepts, and reality
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McGill-Queen’s studies in the History of ideas
series editor: philip J. cercone
1 problems of cartesianism 11 scottish common sense
Edited by Thomas M. Lennon, in Germany, 1768–1800:
John M. Nicholas, and John a contribution to the
W. Davis History of critical philosophy
Manfred Kuehn
2 the development of the idea
of History in antiquity 12 paine and cobbett:
Gerald A. Press the transatlantic connection
David A. Wilson
3 claude Buffier and thomas reid:
two common-sense philosophers 13 descartes and the enlightenment
Louise Marcil-Lacoste Peter A. Schouls
4 schiller, Hegel, and Marx: 14 Greek scepticism: anti-realist
state, society, and the aesthetic trends in ancient thought
ideal of ancient Greece Leo Groarke
Philip J. Kain
15 the irony of theology and the
5 John case and aristotelianism nature of religious thought
in renaissance england Donald Wiebe
Charles B. Schmitt
16 Form and transformation:
6 Beyond liberty and property: a study in the philosophy
the process of self-recognition of plotinus
in eighteenth-century political Frederic M. Schroeder
thought
17 From personal duties
J.A.W. Gunn
towards personal rights:
7 John toland: His Methods, late Medieval and early
Manners, and Mind Modern political thought,
Stephen H. Daniel c. 1300–c. 1650
Arthur P. Monahan
8 coleridge and the inspired Word
Anthony John Harding 18 the Main philosophical
Writings and the novel Allwill
9 the Jena system, 1804–5:
Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi
logic and Metaphysics
Translated and edited by
G.W.F. Hegel
George di Giovanni
Translation edited by John W. Burbidge
and George di Giovanni 19 Kierkegaard as Humanist:
Introduction and notes by discovering My self
H.S. Harris Arnold B. Come
10 consent, coercion, and limit: 20 durkheim, Morals, and
the Medieval origins of Modernity
parliamentary democracy W. Watts Miller
Arthur P. Monahan
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21 the career of toleration: 32 orthodoxy and enlightenment:
John locke, Jonas proast, George campbell in
and after the eighteenth century
Richard Vernon Jeffrey M. Suderman
22 dialectic of love: platonism 33 contemplation and incarnation:
in schiller’s aesthetics the theology of Marie-
David Pugh dominique chenu
Christophe F. Potworowski
23 History and Memory
in ancient Greece 34 democratic legitimacy:
Gordon Shrimpton plural Values
and political power
24 Kierkegaard as theologian:
F.M. Barnard
recovering My self
Arnold B. Come 35 Herder on nationality,
Humanity, and History
25 enlightenment and
F.M. Barnard
conservatism in Victorian
scotland: the career of 36 labeling people: French scholars
sir archibald alison on society, race, and empire,
Michael Michie 1815–1849
Martin S. Staum
26 the road to egdon Heath:
the aesthetics of the Great 37 the subaltern appeal to
in nature experience: self-identity,
Richard Bevis late Modernity, and the
politics of immediacy
27 Jena romanticism and its
Craig Ireland
appropriation of Jakob Böhme:
theosophy – Hagiography – 38 the invention of Journalism
literature ethics: the path to objectivity
Paolo Mayer and Beyond
Stephen J.A. Ward
28 enlightenment and community:
lessing, abbt, Herder, and the 39 the recovery of Wonder:
Quest for a German public the new Freedom
Benjamin W. Redekop and the asceticism of power
Kenneth L. Schmitz
29 Jacob Burckhardt and
the crisis of Modernity 40 reason and self-enactment
John R. Hinde in History and politics:
themes and Voices
30 the distant relation:
of Modernity
time and identity in spanish-
F.M. Barnard
american Fiction
Eoin S. Thomson 41 the More Moderate side
of Joseph de Maistre:
31 Mr simson’s Knotty case:
Views on political liberty
divinity, politics, and due process
and political economy
in early eighteenth-century
Cara Camcastle
scotland
Anne Skoczylas
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42 democratic society 51 archives and the event of God:
and Human needs the impact of Michel Foucault
Jeff Noonan on philosophical theology
David Galston
43 the circle of rights expands:
Modern political thought 52 Between the Queen and the cabby:
after the reformation, 1521 olympe de Gouges’s
(luther) to 1762(rousseau) Rights of Women
Arthur P. Monahan John R. Cole
44 the canadian Founding: 53 nature and nurture in French
John locke and parliament social sciences, 1859–1914
Janet Ajzenstat and Beyond
Martin S. Staum
45 Finding Freedom: Hegel’s
philosophy and the 54 public passion:
emancipation of Women rethinking the Grounds
Sara MacDonald for political Justice
Rebecca Kingston
46 When the French tried
to Be British: party, opposition, 55 rethinking the political:
and the Quest for the civil the sacred, aesthetic politics,
disagreement, 1814–1848 and the collège de sociologie
J.A.W. Gunn Simonetta Falasca-Zamponi
47 Under conrad’s eyes: 56 Materialist ethics and life-Value
the novel as criticism Jeff Noonan
Michael John DiSanto
57 Hegel’s Phenomenology:
48 Media, Memory, and the dialectical Justification
the First World War of philosophy’s First principles
David Williams Ardis B. Collins
49 an aristotelian account 58 the social History of ideas
of induction: creating in Quebec, 1760–1896
something from nothing yvan lamonde
Louis Groarke Translated by Phyllis Aronoff
and Howard Scott
50 social and political Bonds:
a Mosaic of contrast 59 ideas, concepts, and reality
and convergence John W. Burbidge
F.M. Barnard
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ideas, concepts,
and reality
John W. Burbidge
McGill-Queen’s University press
Montreal & Kingston • london • ithaca
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© McGill-Queen’s University press 2013
isbn 978-0-7735-4127-6 (cloth)
isbn 978-0-7735-4165-8 (paper)
legal deposit second quarter 2013
Bibliothèque nationale du Québec
printed in canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest free
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Federation for the Humanities and social sciences, through the awards
to scholarly publications program, using funds provided by the social
sciences and Humanities research council of canada.
McGill-Queen’s University press acknowledges the support of the canada
council for the arts for our publishing program. We also acknowledge
the financial support of the Government of canada through the canada
Book Fund for our publishing activities.
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Burbidge, John, 1936–
ideas, concepts, and reality / John W. Burbidge.
(McGill-Queen’s studies in the history of ideas, ISSN 0711-0995)
includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-0-7735-4127-6 (bound). – isbn 978-0-7735-4165-8 (pbk.)
1. idea (philosophy). 2. concepts. 3. Mind and reality. 4. thought and
thinking. i. title. ii. series: McGill-Queen’s studies in the history of ideas
b105.i28b87 2013 121'.4 c2012-908101-9
this book was typeset by interscript in 10.5/13 new Baskerville.
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For Jacob
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Contents
prologue 3
Part One From Ideas to Concepts 11
1 Frege and psychologism 13
2 From sensations to ideas: the empiricists 20
3 How ideas emerge: Hegel 31
4 language 39
5 From retentive to Mechanical Memory 48
6 thoughts and descartes’s rules 57
7 second rule: analysis and definition 64
8 third rule: synthesis and Unity 74
9 Fourth rule: comprehensiveness 81
10 conceiving 90
Part Two Tendrils of Thought 97
11 Hegel’s Logic 99
12 syllogisms 107
13 Modus ponens et al. 113
14 arguments from analogy 124
15 linguistic Variations 136
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