Note 107 — Chapter V · THE WORLD OF THINGS—(2) CHANGE AND CAUSALITY

For the English reader the best sources of information as to the “descriptive” theory of science are probably volume i. of Professor Ward’s Naturalism and Agnosticism; and Mach, the Science of Mechanics (Eng. trans.). Students who read Gennan may advantageously add Avenarius, Philosophie als Denken der Welt gemäss dem Princip des kleinsten Kraftmasses. Professor J. A. Stewart is surely mistaken (Mind, July 1902) in treating the doctrine as a discovery of “idealist” metaphysicians. Whatever may be thought of some of the uses to which “idealists” put the theory, they cannot claim the credit of its invention.