Truth and Error or the Science of Intellection

A constructive treatise on epistemology by an American author should receive from American students of philosophy a warm welcome. No one is fitted to produce such a treatise who is not, first, a profound student of psychology and of the history and method of philosophy, and unless, in the second place, he understands what the problem of epistemology is. The author of the volume under review—who is the director of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and late director of the U. S. Geological Su...