Polarity (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Polarity Definitions are in the first place boundaries, and philosophy having no boundaries is thereby incapable of definition. To philosophy belong all problems which by reason of their largeness - their ubiquity - cannot be undertaken by any specialised line of thought. If we give it a more express mandate than this and require of it a definite excavation of some absolute and residual truth it can no longer hold its own in open country and must perforce dig itself into academic trenches. Neither to philosophy, nor to any subject inherently belongs the virtue which could distil from life one absolute formula which may serve thenceforward either as a basis of thinking or a basis of life. The philosopher must float in his medium - to seek a foothold is to sink the ship. Only when the Earth's crust was treated as a fait accompli and studied as such did the great discoveries of the geologists begin. Similarly a certain acceptance of the world in all its phases stands at the threshold of right thought. Above all we would do well at the outset to grant to words as far as possible their own dictionary meanings and judge them by what understanding we can purchase with them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.