Collingwood on Philosophical Methodology by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030024321
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

19It has to be stressed that the identification of similarities and differences is not meant by Collingwood to encourage the natural scientist’s work of classifications and generalizations.

20Collingwood distinguishes between assumptions and suppositions. The assumptions, as in the case of mathematics where we begin by making a certain hypothesis, such as ‘Let ABC be a triangle’, are freely chosen whereas suppositions proper aren’t (EM : 27–28, 414–15).

21Collingwood says that the concept of cause is ambiguous. One of its senses is the one that Collingwood calls ‘the historical sense’, in which the cause is associated with human activity, that is, deliberate actions and motives (EM: 285–86; IH: 214–15; PH: 191).

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