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EDITED BY J. // MUIRHEAD, Af.A.
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APPEARANCE AND REALITYSOME OPINIONS OF THE PRESS" One of the most important books that have been publishedduring thelast twenty- five years." J. H. Muirhead in Literary Guide." This is a truly great book. It is one of supreme interestand importance to the student of Ethics, as well as to thestudent of Metaphysics. Every particular thing in it isdelightful. The style, though often paradoxical, issingularly bright and attractive. It is hardly too much tosay that the book is altogether the most importantindependent work on Metaphysics that has ever been writtenin English." International Journal of Ethics."This book must be studied and reckoned with by allstudents of Metaphysics." Guardian.
 
APPEARANCE AND REALITYF. H. BRADLEY, LL.D. GLASGOWFellow of Merton College^ OxfordSIXTH IMPRESSION (CORRECTED)LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD.RUSKIN HOUSE 40 MUSEUM STREET, W.C.FIRST EDITION, June, 1893;SECOND EDITION (with an Appendix), February, 1897 ;THIRD IMPRESSION, June, 1899;FOURTH IMPRESSION, February, 1906;FIFTH IMPRESSION (corrected), November, 1908;SIXTH IMPRESSION (corrected), June, 1916.TO MY FRIENDTHIS UNWORTHY VOLUMEIS RESPECTFULLYDEDICATED.
 
PREFACE.I HAVE described the following work as an essay inmetaphysics. Neither in form nor extent does it carry outthe idea of a system. Its subject indeed is central enoughto justify the exhaustive treatment of every problem. Butwhat I have done is in complete, and what has been leftundone has often been omitted arbitrarily. The book is amore or less desultory handling of perhaps the chiefquestions in metaphysics.There were several reasons why I did not attempt a moresystematic treatise, and to carry out even what I proposedhas proved enough for my powers. I began this book in theautumn of 1887, and, after writing the first two fifths ofit in twelve months, then took three years with theremainder. My work has been suspended several times throughlong intervals of compulsory idleness, and I have been gladto finish it when and how I could. I do not say this toobviate criticism on a book now deliberately published.But, if I had attempted more, I should probably havecompleted nothing.And in the main I have accomplished all that lay within mycompass. This volume is meant to be a critical discussionof first principles, and its object is to stimulate enquiryand doubt. To originality in any other sense it makes noclaim. If thereader finds that on any points he has been ledonce more to rellect, I shall not have failed, so faras I can, to be original. But I should add that mybook is not intended for the beginner. Its languagein general I hope is not over-technical, but I havesometimes used terms intelligible only to thestudent. The index supplied is not an index but amere collection of certain references.My book does not design to be permanent, andwill be satisfied to be negative, so long as that wordimplies an attitude of active questioning. Thechief need of English philosophy is, I think, asceptical study of first principles, and I do not knowof any work which seems to meet this need sufficiently. By scepticism is not meant doubt about ordisbelief in some tenet or tenets. I understand byit an attempt to become aware of and to doubt allpreconceptions. Such scepticism is the result only
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