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JOAD, CYRIL EDWIN MITCHINSON. Essays in common sense philosophy. *$2 Harcourt 192
(Eng ed 20–6885)
“In ‘Essays in common sense philosophy’ C. E. M. Joad of Balliol college, Oxford, gives us a rethinking of contemporary metaphysics, in which his titular claim rests on the views that we do actually perceive things as they are, that apparent differences and discontinuities in experience are real and that the Hegelian theory of the state is essentially wrong, inasmuch as the state is only a subordinate institution within the larger whole of human society. The first point is made out on the basis of Meinong’s Gegendstandstheorie, which, even if it be accepted, is not obviously the reasoning of common sense. Similarly, the defense of pluralism, based on Russell’s treatment of relations, comes indeed to the plain man’s conclusion, but by a tortuous path. Two other important essays in this book are those on truth, and on universals.”—Springf’d Republican