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The Limits of Evolution

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 February 2009

N. Lossky
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At the beginning of this article I propose to use the word “ evolution “ as it is used in biology, to mean the formation of a number of vegetable or animal species out of a few comparatively simple types, and to exclude from its connotation any idea of perfection, purpose, value, and so on.

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Philosophy , Volume 2 , Issue 8 , October 1927 , pp. 492 - 502
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1927

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page 492 note 1 By the word “ element” I merely mean a part which is simpler than the whole.

page 493 note 1 Spencer, H., The Principles of Psychology, vol. i, § 208.Google Scholar

page 493 note 2 Ibid. vol. ii, § 472.

page 493 note 3 By “ categories “ I mean the ultimate metaphysical conditions of the existence of nature which are, at the same time, the conditions of its being knowable in and through intellectual intuition.

page 494 note 1 Critique of Pure Reason, translated by Müller, Max, p. 153.Google Scholar

page 495 note 1 The term “ concretely-ideal “ will be explained later.

page 497 note 1 I use the word “ creative “ not in the narrow sense of producing a perfectly new content different in kind from the already existing types of being and requiring a new term to express it; by “ creative “ I mean in this connection the agent's power of producing a new event which may be exactly similar to events it had produced before.

page 497 note 2 See Meyerson, Identity and Reality.

page 499 note 1 Aristotelian Proceedings, 1924, Suppl., vol. iv, p. 112.Google Scholar

page 499 note 2 The Analysis of Mind, pp. 209, 307.

page 501 note 1 Becher, E., Die Fremddienliche Zweckmassigkeit der Pflanzengallen und die Hypothese eines über individuellen Scelischen (Leipzic, 1917).Google Scholar