LECTURE I.
THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC BELIEF.
The subject introduced: Scientific belief. Mathematics and Metaphysics excluded. The Postulate of Science: the Uniformity of Nature. Hume's account of it. Kant's account of it. Insufficiency of both accounts. Science traced back to observation of the Human Will. The development of Science from this origin. The increasing generality of the Postulate: which nevertheless can never attain to universality.
LECTURE I.
THE ORIGIN AND NATURE OF SCIENTIFIC BELIEF.
'O Lord, how manifold are Thy works: in wisdom hast Thou made them all; the earth is full of Thy riches.' —Psalm civ. 24.