Excerpt from The Value of a Study of Ethics: An Inaugural Lecture Science deals with facts. Has it nothing to do with theories? I think we shall find that it has just as much to do with theories as with facts. Fact, itself, is a term which is not entirely unambiguous. We may mean by it that something is now occurring or something has occurred, or, what is very different, that something is what we suppose it to be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ...
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Excerpt from The Value of a Study of Ethics: An Inaugural Lecture Science deals with facts. Has it nothing to do with theories? I think we shall find that it has just as much to do with theories as with facts. Fact, itself, is a term which is not entirely unambiguous. We may mean by it that something is now occurring or something has occurred, or, what is very different, that something is what we suppose it to be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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