The Character and Logical Method of Political EconomyW. McGee, 1869 - 184 頁 The work on the “Character and Logical Method of Political Economy” may be recommended to students as a safe guide to help them through the mazy labyrinths which the earlier stages of the study present. The purpose of the work is to ascertain the true relation of Political Economy to the Physical Sciences on the one hand, and to the Moral Sciences on the other, both as regards method and compass. The supporters and opponents of Political Economy have each done it injustice by misapprehending its aims and limits. The study, as Professor Cairnes points out and explains with inimitable clearness, does not consist in an investigation into the causes of physical facts or the evolution of psychological processes. Political Economy begins at the point at which physical science and psychological science each end. |
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... positive political course ; that , having satisfied themselves as to the general law , it will still remain open to them to consider the expediency of its application in any given contingency . I believe too that , even with a view to ...
... positive or a hypothetical science . To heve It does not appear that the meaning of the terms " positive " and " hypothetical , " as they have been used in this controversy , has been precisely fixed , and I am disposed to think that ...
... positive physical sciences , the premises of which are laid in the existing facts of nature . But " positive " and " hypo- thetical " may also be used with reference to the con- clusions of a science ; and in this sense all the physi ...
... positive realities . Speaking , therefore , with reference to the conclusions of those physical sciences in which deductive reasoning is employed , such sciences must be regarded as hypothetical . On the other hand , in those sciences ...
... positive facts ; whilst its con- clusions , like the conclusions of those sciences , when applied to the realities ... positively true , e . g . to assert that men desire wealth , that they are averse to labour , and that consequently ...