Note 2 — Chapter V

I hope I am not doing an injustice if I make the author of the philosophy of ‘As If’ represent a point of view that is familiar to other thinkers also. Cp. H. Vaihinger, Die Philosophie des Als ob, Siebente und achte Auflage, 1922, S. 68: ‘We include as fictions not merely indifferent theoretical operations but ideational constructions emanating from the noblest minds, to which the noblest part of mankind cling and of which they will not allow themselves to be deprived. Nor is it our object so to deprive them—for as practical fictions we leave them all intact; they perish only as theoretical truths’ (C. K. Ogden’s translation).