{"id":17,"date":"2013-12-12T16:02:04","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T16:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/theproblemofphilosophy\/front-matter\/preface\/"},"modified":"2013-12-12T16:02:04","modified_gmt":"2013-12-12T16:02:04","slug":"preface","status":"publish","type":"front-matter","link":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/theproblemofphilosophy\/front-matter\/preface\/","title":{"rendered":"Preface"},"content":{"raw":"\n<p>In the following pages I have confined myself in the main to those problems of philosophy in regard to which I thought it possible to say something positive and constructive, since merely negative criticism seemed out of place. For this reason, theory of knowledge occupies a larger space than metaphysics in the present volume, and some topics much discussed by philosophers are treated very briefly, if at all.<\/p>\n<p>I have derived valuable assistance from unpublished writings of G. E. Moore and J. M. Keynes: from the former, as regards the relations of sense-data to physical objects, and from the latter as regards probability and induction. I have also profited greatly by the criticisms and suggestions of Professor Gilbert Murray.<\/p>\n\n","rendered":"<p>In the following pages I have confined myself in the main to those problems of philosophy in regard to which I thought it possible to say something positive and constructive, since merely negative criticism seemed out of place. For this reason, theory of knowledge occupies a larger space than metaphysics in the present volume, and some topics much discussed by philosophers are treated very briefly, if at all.<\/p>\n<p>I have derived valuable assistance from unpublished writings of G. E. Moore and J. M. Keynes: from the former, as regards the relations of sense-data to physical objects, and from the latter as regards probability and induction. I have also profited greatly by the criticisms and suggestions of Professor Gilbert Murray.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"menu_order":1,"template":"","meta":{"pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"front-matter-type":[19],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-17","front-matter","type-front-matter","status-publish","hentry","front-matter-type-preface"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/theproblemofphilosophy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/theproblemofphilosophy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/theproblemofphilosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/front-matter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/theproblemofphilosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/theproblemofphilosophy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/17\/revisions"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/theproblemofphilosophy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter\/17\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/theproblemofphilosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"front-matter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/theproblemofphilosophy\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/front-matter-type?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/theproblemofphilosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.publiconsulting.com\/wordpress\/theproblemofphilosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}