The dynamic element in my philosophy, taken as a whole, can be seen as an obstinate and untiring battle against the spirit of abstraction.

By object is meant some element in the complex whole that is defined in abstraction from the whole of which it is a distinction.

Philosophy is a battle against the bewitchment of our intelligence by means of language.

There is a strategic element to it. It's something that we've seen before. Japan was doing the same thing about 10 to 15 years ago, with a lot of its natural resource companies, including oil companies, buying into foreign projects.

But a science is exact to the extent that its method measures up to and is adequate to its object.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.