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Part iii The Objective Value of Science Chapter 10 Is Science Artificial?
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Part iii
The Objective Value of Science
Chapter 10
Is Science Artificial?
1. The Philosophy of M. LeRoy
There are many reasons for being sceptics; should we push this scepticism to the very end or stop on the way? To go to the end is the most tempting1 solution, the easiest and that which many have adopted, despairing of saving anything from the shipwreck2.
Among the writings inspired by this tendency it is proper to place in the first rank those of M. LeRoy. This thinker is not only a philosopher and a writer of the greatest merit, but he has acquired a deep knowledge of the exact and physical sciences, and even has shown rare powers of mathematical invention. Let us recapitulate3 in a few words his doctrine4, which has given rise to numerous discussions.
Science consists only of conventions, and to this circumstance solely5 does it owe its apparent certitude; the facts of science and, a fortiori, its laws are the artificial work of the scientist; science therefore can teach us nothing of the truth; it can only serve us as rule of action.
Here we recognize the philosophic6 theory known under the name of nominalism; all is not false in this theory; its legitimate7 domain8 must be left it, but out of this it should not be allowed to go.
This is not all; M. LeRoy’s doctrine is not only nominalistic; it has besides another characteristic which it doubtless owes to M. Bergson, it is anti-intellectualistic. According to M. LeRoy, the intellect deforms9 all it touches, and that is still more true of its necessary instrument ‘discourse.’ There is reality only in our
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logic
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deviation
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tautology
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conformity
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deformation
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