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I. p. 384. This point has been well urged by the American realists. Cf. T.P. Nunn, "Are Secondary Qualities Independent of Perception?" Proc. Arist. Soc., 1909-1910. Physics is said to be an empirical science, based upon observation and experiment. It is supposed to be verifiable, i.e. capable of calculating beforehand results subsequently confirmed by observation and experiment.
S. de Animalib. S. Script. part. Comment. in Arist. Hist. I do not here find Aristotle asserting or confirming any thing of the fabulous Narrations that had been made about the Pygmies.
On these grounds, I recommend it to attention as a hypothesis and a basis for further work, though not as itself a finished or adequate solution of the problem with which it deals. Reprinted from The Monist, July, 1915. Cf. especially Samuel Alexander, "The Basis of Realism," British Academy, Vol. "Are Secondary Qualities Independent of Perception?" Proc. Arist. Soc., 1909-10, pp. 191-218.
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