Mind and the World-Order. Outline of a Theory of Knowledge.

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A major work on epistemology by the Harvard philosopher C.I. Lewis in which he development his own distinctive position of ‘conceptual pragmatism’. ‘Maintaining the pragmatist conception of mind as an evolved natural instrument, Lewis none the less stressed, like Kant, the formal conceptual aspects of knowledge. Capable of constructing alternative sets of concepts, the mind chooses pragmatically which set it will use to interpret the data’ (Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Philosophers, p. 457).

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