Abstract
SECTION I
SOME DISTINCTIVE TYPES OF ABSTRACTION
Chapter I The Abstractions of Specialised Studies ||
Chapter II Logic and specialisation within Philosophy. ||
Chapter. III The Abstractions of Systematic Philosophy (I) ||
Chapter IV The Abstractions of Systematic Philosophy (II)
SECTION II
THE RATIONALIST ABSTRACTION IN THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
Chapter V "Ways of Knowing" in Science and Philosophy ||
Chapter VI Natural Law and Seventeenth Century Political Theory ||
SECTION III
SOME INADVERTENT CRITICISMS OF RATIONALISM IN SEVENTEENTH CENTURY PHILOSOPHY
Chapter VII Mathematical Method and Metaphysics - The Cartesian "Experiment" ||
Chapter VIII Some Self-evidenced Limitations of Descartes' Method ||
Chapter IX Alternative Interpretations of Descartes' Method ||
Chapter X Beyond Mathematical Analogies.
