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Ewing . . . was naive, unworldly even by academic standards, intellectually shrewd, unswervingly honest and a devout Christian.
Alfred Ewing died on May 14, 1973. . . . He had been my close friend for many years. He reviewed my Nature of Thought for Mind more than thirty years ago, and from that time on we remained in touch ... We were drawn together by . . . a common skepticism regarding some of the newer fashions in philosophy; and it is suggestive of one strong opinion . . . I shared that he . . . entitled one of his last books Non-linguistic Philosophy. . . . Like some other adherents of the more traditional styles of philosophizing, he was without the honor that he deserved in his own country, though his incisive critical essays, quietly written but stored with argumentative dynamite, must have taken effect upon such positivists and post-positivists as read him. Ewing had so sure a sense for the logical weaknesses of an opponent's position that I was always relieved when I found him on my side . . . Ethics was one of the subjects on which we differed, and . . . his rapier is pointed . . . at the most vulnerable points in my ethical armor.
In this . . . he defends a rationalist view of a priori justification, according to which the human mind has a fundamental capacity for insight into necessary truths. Along the way, he . . . also discusses the issues of innate ideas and induction.
This book comprises fourteen essays, on a number of different subjects, written . . . over a period of some thirty years. . . . A sustained attack on the verification principle, an attack to which the author returns a number of times . . .helps to bring together articles on otherwise very different topics. These essays show Dr. Ewing also as consistently resistant to the philosophically fashionable. whether it be pre-war positivism or the later linguistic analytical approach of contemporary Anglo-Saxon philosophy. Although, on the evidence of this book, he appears more antagonistic to the former . . .
Idealism has a way of rousing scorn in its critics, but in this long critique there is never . . . a single argument that simply scores a point. . . . It is the most fair-minded as well as the most searching critique of certain aspects of British idealism that has been given to us. The chief reason for all this lies, of course, in the author's . . .integrity, but it is natural also to suppose that his former belief in idealism left him with an inalienable appreciation of its merits. For if his book is a palinode it is also a tribute to what it recants and refutes. . . . the genius of the book lies . . . in the shape and stuff of its elaborate argumentation. Every problem is analyzed with a remarkable versatility and pertinacity of criticism ... It is a fine achievement, which should survive the fashions of the day.
This book comprises fourteen essays, on a number of different subjects, written . . . over a period of some thirty years. . . . A sustained attack on the verification principle, an attack to which the author returns a number of times . . .helps to bring together articles on otherwise very different topics. These essays show Dr. Ewing also as consistently resistant to the philosophically fashionable. whether it be pre-war positivism or the later linguistic analytical approach of contemporary Anglo-Saxon philosophy. Although, on the evidence of this book, he appears more antagonistic to the former . . .
Idealism has a way of rousing scorn in its critics, but in this long critique there is never . . . a single argument that simply scores a point. . . . It is the most fair-minded as well as the most searching critique of certain aspects of British idealism that has been given to us. The chief reason for all this lies, of course, in the author's . . .integrity, but it is natural also to suppose that his former belief in idealism left him with an inalienable appreciation of its merits. For if his book is a palinode it is also a tribute to what it recants and refutes. . . . the genius of the book lies . . . in the shape and stuff of its elaborate argumentation. Every problem is analyzed with a remarkable versatility and pertinacity of criticism ... It is a fine achievement, which should survive the fashions of the day.
This book comprises fourteen essays, on a number of different subjects, written . . . over a period of some thirty years. . . . A sustained attack on the verification principle, an attack to which the author returns a number of times . . .helps to bring together articles on otherwise very different topics. These essays show Dr. Ewing also as consistently resistant to the philosophically fashionable. whether it be pre-war positivism or the later linguistic analytical approach of contemporary Anglo-Saxon philosophy. Although, on the evidence of this book, he appears more antagonistic to the former . . .
