本論文的研究對象是柯靈烏廣受忽略的《哲學方法論》。我認為他的「形式的層級」的觀念提供了分析某些概念的方法,這些概念的特徵是它們的開放性。此外,我主張這個觀念也能做為理解辯證法的模型。
This paper offers a study of Collingwood’s largely ignored “Essay on Philosophical Method.” I read his idea of the scale of forms as providing a method to analyze certain concepts that are characterized by their openness and contend that it also serves as a model to understand the dialectical method.