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principles of Common Sense that Logic and all
Cenoscopy must rest; and since they are
absolutely indubitable there can be no consistent
dissatisfaction with them. These are not
results of any special science, but on the contrary,
antecede all scientific research and are
taken for granted by all scientists. For scientific men
are not sophists and wranglers over nothing, but
are eminently men of Common Sense, that is of
Human Instinct, beyond the gates of which it is impossible for
men to push their criticism. I could not ask for
more convincing support of this Common Sensism
than is furnished by the ultra-empiricist Ernst
Mach in his book "Die Mechanik in ihrer Entwicklung
historisch-kritisch dargestellt."