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Preface
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of dialectic could be effectively nullified. In order not to be a dialectician one must be a dogmatist—however that fundamental opposition be interpreted.

I should like to refer readers to Mr. Scott Buchanan’s essay on Possibility, published in this Library, as the dialectical correlative, and perhaps, corrective, of many of the theories herein set forth. I am grateful to Mr. Mark Van Doren, and to Mr. Malcolm McComb for reading the manuscript.

M. J. A.

New York.
September, 1927.