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John Bascom's Complete Works

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John Bascom Prophet

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Introduction - The Man - The Conflict Between Science, Philosophy and Religion in Dr. Bascom's Time - Dr. Bascom's Contention that Mechanical Evolution is incomplete - Spiritual Evolution and the Modification of Religious Beliefs Resulting from this Conception - Constructive Realism / Science of Mind / "unity of mind and matter" / "the world is the product of God's thought" / The Solution of Philosophical and Religious Problems - Dr. Bascom and Present Thought - Contents -


which objects make on us, are within the plane of our experience and are directly known, but the objects themselves are out of reach. However, because the objective world itself is never within the plane of our experience it is not therefore unknown and unknowable. The knowledge relation is a triple relation between the knowing subject, the object known, and the phenomenon caused by the object in the plane of the subject's experience. There is correspondence between the phenomenon and the object itself which human experience affirms to be actual. The world of objects is a real world which we never know directly but can know indirectly. We cannot have direct knowledge of, but we can have indirect knowledge about things. Science has always proceeded on this basis; and when philosophy generally does so, philosophy will become understandable to men in general.

It is interesting to note that Professor Pratt and six other leading professors of philosophy

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