Logical Objects

Abstract

The exigencies which produced this paper will, I hope, render apologies unnecessary. I am only too conscious that it is not a paper for discussion, but a memorandum of certain positions which might be developed. I would suggest, however, that the following points may afford a handle which discussion can take hold of: First, what is the nature of empirically observable inference? Can it be sufficiently identified by behavioristic criteria? If so, secondly, is it not altogether probable, in view of its tremendous importance in life and the danger of going wrong to which experience shows it is exposed, that