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- catalog contributor b8119593.
- catalog created "1938.".
- catalog date "1938".
- catalog date "1938.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1938.".
- catalog description "Measurement, a quality of a social operation -- Probability, a measure of something objective -- The limits of simple enumeration -- The generalization of the footrule -- Measurable and non-measurable qualities -- Forming social isolates -- Social qualities distinctive of an epoch -- Man-made isolates -- How a quality is transformed -- Discontinuity implies continuity -- Developing processes -- Phase change in production -- Succession of static phases -- Non-causal nature of time or space -- The static phases in production -- Scientific control over process -- Does the scientist snap his fingers at history? -- No -- The scientist deepens a quality -- Phase changes in nature -- Science: deliberate interference with nature -- Immediate and remote causes -- Scientists examine single phases -- Dangers of scientific isolation -- Causal agency in change is aroused internally -- Statement of law of qualitative change in phase -- Phase changes in scientific understanding -- ".
- catalog description "Phase changes in logical process -- Content and form -- Organizational changes in phase -- Illustrative examples of a biological nature -- What is the test of a phase change? -- Artificial delay in phase change; mechanical Fascism -- What causes change -- General and historical -- Difficulties of causality -- Scope of laws -- A law as a statistical isolate -- Every law both statistical and atomic in its nature -- Probability in nature -- Ignorance, accidents, and regularities of accidents -- How causality is exposed -- Determinism and repetitive processes -- Causal qualities -- Justification of causal classification, by replacement -- Eliminating the experimenter -- Hierarchy of causes -- Limitations of mechanical determinism -- Active and passive causal qualities -- Logical causality or logical necessity -- Slipping into idealism -- Scientists at the philosophical cross-roads -- Prediction tests -- Freedom and necessity".
- catalog description "Society unconscious of the linkage -- Illustrated in thought activity -- Illustrated ideologues of society -- Its meaning for strategy -- What is truth?".
- catalog description "The revolt of the income-tax payer -- What causes change in society: being a scientific study of social development -- Is there no science of history? -- Scientists make history -- Materialist interpretation of scientific history -- Human beings as food-producers -- Man values the future -- Survival of the fittest, an excuse for economic oppression -- Learning by social experience -- Unity of resources and handling of resources -- Technical development as a causal factor -- General principle illustrated in Russian painting -- Internal aspect of technical activity -- Regularities in material dictate mode of approach -- Creating social values by social effort -- Two distinct statistical group activities -- Labor power and control power -- What is produced -- How the product is divided -- What happens to the unconsumed commodities -- Expand or die -- Finance -- What settles wages -- Stress at the interface -- The coming of economic crisis; must it be periodic? -- ".
- catalog description "What men demand of a philosophy -- Bringing a philosophy to earth -- Philosophy at work -- The new tempo -- The proper mood of approach -- Assumptions -- Man and his thinking about the universe -- Thinking with action -- The priority of matter to living and thinking -- Qualities of matter formed in nature and created by man -- Matter out of date? -- How a quality is modified -- Definition of an isolate -- Relation between external and internal qualities -- Replacing the isolate -- Motion as an isolate -- Widening the nature of the isolate; group qualities -- Levels of qualities -- Relation between qualitative levels -- Orderly qualities -- Disorderly qualities -- Coexistence of qualities at the same level -- Qualities show themselves through behavior -- Forming new qualities from old -- Purposive action -- The quality linking ends to mean -- Marking the new level of understanding -- Quantities and qualities -- Subjective sense of change -- Is motion an illusion? -- ".
- catalog description "Where is this market? -- The external contradiction -- Resolving difficulties by abstractions -- University and diversity among employers -- The chaos spreads -- Fascism, the final stage of frustration -- Inevitability -- Other times other phases -- Other countries -- Effects of uneven employment -- Invariable order in phases -- Telescoping phases by conscious group action -- Uneven development merely internal strains and stresses in society as a whole -- The negation of capitalism -- The two alternative routes -- The superstructure of society -- The social history of the theory and practice of probability -- The struggle on the ideological plane -- The search for the social variables -- What it means for you and me, or the unity of theory and practice -- Our present discontents -- The case for the classless society -- Unity of theory and practice -- Illustrated in the process of discovery -- Illustrated in planned activity -- Illustrated in desires and valuations -- ".
- catalog extent "x p., 2 l., [3]-309, vi p., 1 l.".
- catalog issued "1938".
- catalog issued "1938.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York, A. A. Knopf,".
- catalog subject "192.9".
- catalog subject "B1646.L483 P5 1938a".
- catalog subject "Metaphysics.".
- catalog subject "Socialism.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Measurement, a quality of a social operation -- Probability, a measure of something objective -- The limits of simple enumeration -- The generalization of the footrule -- Measurable and non-measurable qualities -- Forming social isolates -- Social qualities distinctive of an epoch -- Man-made isolates -- How a quality is transformed -- Discontinuity implies continuity -- Developing processes -- Phase change in production -- Succession of static phases -- Non-causal nature of time or space -- The static phases in production -- Scientific control over process -- Does the scientist snap his fingers at history? -- No -- The scientist deepens a quality -- Phase changes in nature -- Science: deliberate interference with nature -- Immediate and remote causes -- Scientists examine single phases -- Dangers of scientific isolation -- Causal agency in change is aroused internally -- Statement of law of qualitative change in phase -- Phase changes in scientific understanding -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Phase changes in logical process -- Content and form -- Organizational changes in phase -- Illustrative examples of a biological nature -- What is the test of a phase change? -- Artificial delay in phase change; mechanical Fascism -- What causes change -- General and historical -- Difficulties of causality -- Scope of laws -- A law as a statistical isolate -- Every law both statistical and atomic in its nature -- Probability in nature -- Ignorance, accidents, and regularities of accidents -- How causality is exposed -- Determinism and repetitive processes -- Causal qualities -- Justification of causal classification, by replacement -- Eliminating the experimenter -- Hierarchy of causes -- Limitations of mechanical determinism -- Active and passive causal qualities -- Logical causality or logical necessity -- Slipping into idealism -- Scientists at the philosophical cross-roads -- Prediction tests -- Freedom and necessity".
- catalog tableOfContents "Society unconscious of the linkage -- Illustrated in thought activity -- Illustrated ideologues of society -- Its meaning for strategy -- What is truth?".
- catalog tableOfContents "The revolt of the income-tax payer -- What causes change in society: being a scientific study of social development -- Is there no science of history? -- Scientists make history -- Materialist interpretation of scientific history -- Human beings as food-producers -- Man values the future -- Survival of the fittest, an excuse for economic oppression -- Learning by social experience -- Unity of resources and handling of resources -- Technical development as a causal factor -- General principle illustrated in Russian painting -- Internal aspect of technical activity -- Regularities in material dictate mode of approach -- Creating social values by social effort -- Two distinct statistical group activities -- Labor power and control power -- What is produced -- How the product is divided -- What happens to the unconsumed commodities -- Expand or die -- Finance -- What settles wages -- Stress at the interface -- The coming of economic crisis; must it be periodic? -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "What men demand of a philosophy -- Bringing a philosophy to earth -- Philosophy at work -- The new tempo -- The proper mood of approach -- Assumptions -- Man and his thinking about the universe -- Thinking with action -- The priority of matter to living and thinking -- Qualities of matter formed in nature and created by man -- Matter out of date? -- How a quality is modified -- Definition of an isolate -- Relation between external and internal qualities -- Replacing the isolate -- Motion as an isolate -- Widening the nature of the isolate; group qualities -- Levels of qualities -- Relation between qualitative levels -- Orderly qualities -- Disorderly qualities -- Coexistence of qualities at the same level -- Qualities show themselves through behavior -- Forming new qualities from old -- Purposive action -- The quality linking ends to mean -- Marking the new level of understanding -- Quantities and qualities -- Subjective sense of change -- Is motion an illusion? -- ".
- catalog tableOfContents "Where is this market? -- The external contradiction -- Resolving difficulties by abstractions -- University and diversity among employers -- The chaos spreads -- Fascism, the final stage of frustration -- Inevitability -- Other times other phases -- Other countries -- Effects of uneven employment -- Invariable order in phases -- Telescoping phases by conscious group action -- Uneven development merely internal strains and stresses in society as a whole -- The negation of capitalism -- The two alternative routes -- The superstructure of society -- The social history of the theory and practice of probability -- The struggle on the ideological plane -- The search for the social variables -- What it means for you and me, or the unity of theory and practice -- Our present discontents -- The case for the classless society -- Unity of theory and practice -- Illustrated in the process of discovery -- Illustrated in planned activity -- Illustrated in desires and valuations -- ".
- catalog title "A philosophy for a modern man, by H. Levy.".
- catalog type "text".