Schragen der Gilden und Aemter der Stadt Riga bis 1621

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Identifikator:: 832850500

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-69619

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Schragen der Gilden und Aemter der Stadt Riga bis 1621

Place of publication:: Riga

Publisher:: Häcker

Year of publication:: 1896

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 758 S.)

Collection:: Economics Books

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24 POLITICAL ECONOMY experience, and is bound to lead to error —so it is alleged. It is no less mistaken than to think of the brain as related to the lungs and heart as one stone is related to another in a heap by the road-side. The only possible social law, it is asserted, must be of such a form as to connect the whole state of society at one time with its whole state at another time. This line of argument is so plausible and embodies so much truth that those who are converted by it may well be excused. But the more persistent of those who are predis posed to believe that a rationalistic account —which may not be the whole account— of all experience is possible will more closely scrutinise what is supposed to block their path. On doing so they will detect first that the arguments opposed to them prove too much. If they are through and through sound all the biological sciences are in a quandary ; but we know they have been successful in framing convincing generalisations relating to the facts of life. The reason for their success is that the mental abstraction of one thing from another is possible even when the phy sical separation of the one thing from the other is not feasible ; and experience, which is the ultimate test of the correctness of all laws,

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