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U. Ludwig Wittgenstein BERTRAND RUSSELL
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IV. Probability and Induction II WILLIAM KNEALE
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Vm. The Logic of Causal Propositions ARTHUR W. BURKS
DC. Maxims ERNEST GELLNER
X. A Problem of Lewis Carroll L. J. RUSSELL
X I . Discussion Notes:
Do Machines Think about Machine! Thinking ? LEONARD PTNSKY
A Note on Existence T. R. MILES
Paradoxical Announcements MICHAEL SCR1VEN
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G. R. G. Mure, A Study of Htgil's Logic JEAN HYPPOLITE
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 The British Journal for the
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CONTENTS
ARTICLES
THE SCIENTIFIC OUTLOOK IN 1851 AND IN 1951 85

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by Herbert Dingle
Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
University of London
MINDIIKE BEHAVIOUR IN ARTEFACTS 105
by D. M. MacKay
Lecturer in Physics
King's College, University of London
THE RELATION BETWEEN THE TIME OF PSYCHOLOGY AND THE TIME
OF PHYSICS (with a Logistic Analysis of the Two-fold Time
Theory of the Specious Present, by Professor C. D. Broad) 122
by H. A. C. Dobbs
Commonwealth Research Fellow in Operational Research
THE NATURE OF SOME OF OUR PHYSICAL CONCEPTS—m 142
by P. W. Bridgman
Professor of Physics, Harvard University

DISCUSSION
THE HYPOTHESIS OF CYBERNETICS 161
by F. M. R.Walshe

REVIEWS
Science: Its Method and Philosophy. By G. Burniston Brown 164
reviewed by C. K. Ogden
Can we Agree ? By C. D. Leake and P. Romanell 165
reviewed by Kathleen Lonsdale
Aquinas and Kant. By Gavin Ardley 167
reviewed by F. I. G. Rawlins
Modern Science and its Philosophy. By Philipp Frank 168
reviewed by J. H. Woodger
 CONTENTS— (contd.)
The Revolt Against Reason. By Arnold Lunn 169
reviewed by R. H. Richens
The Philosophy of Mathematics. By Edward A. Maziarz 170
reviewed by W. H. McCrea
A Critique of Logical Positivism. By C. E. M. Joad 172
reviewed by E. H. Hutten
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