V. I. LENIN


  MATERIALISM  
AND
EMPIRIO-
CRITICISM

[Part II]
FOREIGN LANGUAGES PRESS
PEKING 1972


First Edition 1972



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MATERIALISM AND EMPIRIO-CRITICISM
Critical Comments on a Reactionary Philosophy

[Part II]


C O N T E N T S


Chapter Three
THE THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE OF DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM
 AND OF EMPIRIO-CRITICISM. III


 
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What Is Matter? What Is Experience?
Plekhanov's Error Concerning the Concept "Experience"
Causality and Necessity in Nature
The "Principle of Economy of Thought" and the Problem of the "Unity of the World"
Space and Time
Freedom and Necessity

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Chapter Four
THE PHILOSOHPHICAL IDEALISTS AS COMRADES-IN-ARMS
 AND SUCCESSORS OF EMPIRIO-CRITICISM


 
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The Criticism of Kantianism from the Left and from the Right
How the "Empirio-Symbolist" Yushkevich Ridiculed the "Empirio-Criticist" Chernov
The Immanentists as Comrades-in-Arms of Mach and Avenarius
Whither Is Empirio-Criticism Tending?
A. Bogdanov's "Empirio-Monism"
The "theory of Symbols" (or Heiroglyphs) and the Criticsm of Hemholtz
Two Kinds of Criticism of Dühring
How Could J. Deitzgen Have Found Favour with the Reactionary Philosophers?


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