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PRELIMINARY REMARKS; Physics and Metaphysicsi; Two standpoints (§ i) Common source (§ 2) Method and result of the physical method (§ 3) Method and result of the metaphysical method (§ 4) Synopsis of all the general sciences (§ 5) Historical (§ 6); A THE EMPIRICAL STANDPOINT; System of Physics; 1 On Space7; Its infinity (§ 7) Everything in space (§ 8); 2 On Time· 7; Its infinity (§ 9) Everything in time (§ 10); 3 On Matter8; Everything is material; two proofs 11) Matter is uncreatable and indestructible (§ 12) The world is either infinitely great or infinitely small (§ 13); 4 On Causality; Persistence and change (§ 14) The (§ 15)-; xii; ELEMENTS OF METAPHYSICS; Cause and causal constituents (§ 16) Arguing from effect to cause, from cause to effect; hypothesis and experiment (§ 17) Two corollaries of the law of causality (§ lS) The net of causality is without beginning and end (§ 19) Three forms of causation : cause, irritation, motive (§ 20); 5 On Natural Forces12; Laws of nature a priori and a posteriori (§ 21) Groups of phenomena and natural forces (§
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