Excerpt from Philosophy in Outline: Being a Brief Exposition of the Method of Philosophy, and Its Results in Obtaining a View of Nature, Man, and God Philosophy is not a science of things in general, but a science that investigates the pre suppositions of experience and discovers the nature of the first principle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.