The Presentation of Reality [Paperback]

Originally published in 1910, this book attempts to describe knowledge from the point of view of a philosophical psychology.Originally published in 1910, this book describes knowledge from the point of view of a philosophical psychology. Wodehouse treats the text as a 'psychological preface to metaphysics', and splits her examination into three sections: knowledge as resulting from judgements in the actual world; the philosophical problem of fallible knowledge; and the question of imagination and 'the variousness of reality'.Originally published in 1910, this book describes knowledge from the point of view of a philosophical psychology. Wodehouse treats the text as a 'psychological preface to metaphysics', and splits her examination into three sections: knowledge as resulting from judgements in the actual world; the philosophical problem of fallible knowledge; and the question of imagination and 'the variousness of reality'.Originally published in 1910, this book attempts to describe knowledge from the point of view of a philosophical psychology. Wodehouse treats the text as a 'psychological preface to metaphysics', and splits her examination into three sections: knowledge as resulting from judgements in the actual world; the philosophical problem of fallible knowledge; and the question of imagination and 'the variousness of reality'. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Wodehouse's work or in the overlap of psychology and philosophy.Introduction; Part I. Knowledge: 1. Knowledge as presentation; 2. Content and object; 3. The fields of presentation I; 4. The fields of presentation II; 5. The fields of presentation III; 6. Defence of the presentation of reality in sense; 7. Defence of the presentation of reality in thought; 8. Illustrative and additional: the apprehension of feeling; Part II. Error: 9. Is any knowledge infallible?; 10. Error and the real; Part III. The Many-Mansioned Universe: 11. The variousness of reality; 12. Assumptions; 13. Thl39