648
DOCS.
622,
623
SEPTEMBER
1918
into
an exchange
of
correspondence
that
you might rightly
fear. I also
am
not
satisfied
with
all
I
had
written
at
the
time
(1912).
Above
all,
I
certainly
should
have
acknowledged
and assessed
your analysis
of
the time
concept.
Now
you
have made such
great
advances in
the
meantime
that
it
is
difficult
for
someone
who
is
fully engaged along
other
lines to
follow.
When
the
war
broke
out,
I
was
so upset
that
I
had
to
let mathematics
lie
for
a
while.
I
then took
up
biological
studies,
which
I
had
been
maintaining
as a
hobby
until
then,
and
am
now
working
on a
book
about
evolutionary
theories and in
particular
mimicry
which,
I
am
happy
to
say,
attracts
the interest
of
the
biologists
here.[2]
This does
not
mesh
well
with
an
orientation
in
new
and
complicated
mathematical
material,
though.
This
occupation
is
more
likely
to lead
me
to
Berlin
sometime,
where
I
would find all sorts of
material that
is
lacking
in
my
modest collection.
But that
is
a
tiresome
question
of
upkeep
and
money,
and
maybe
the
war
will
thwart
all
my plans.
If it
becomes
possible
for
me
to
come
to
Berlin,
I
shall
give
myself
the honor of
visiting you,
and
it
will
be
a
great
pleasure
for
me
to
make
your
acquaintance.
With
respectful
greetings,
I
am
yours very truly,
E.
Study.
I
am
sending you
a
few
more
short
papers.
You
probably already
have
my
Grund-
lagen
der
Kinematik[3]
[Foundations
of Kinematics],
623.
From Hans
Vaihinger[1]
Bad-Rothenfelde,
23 September 1918
Highly
esteemed
Colleague,
A few
weeks
ago
the
newspapers
carried
a
report
on a new
philosophical peri-
odical
that
is
being
founded
by me
in
conjunction
with Dr.
Raymund
Schmidt.[2]
This
report
was
essentially
correct
but
premature
and its content
is
not
completely
accurate.
Since it
is
of
importance
to
me
that
you,
in
particular,
be
correctly
ori-
ented in
the
new
enterprise,
I permit
myself
to forward to
you
a
short
two-page
prospectus
on
the
new
journal,
along
with
a general
table
of contents
originating
from
the
just
published
3rd edition
of
Philosophie
des Als
Ob[3]
[Philosophy
of
As
If], as
well
as a
short
four-page program
that
will
be
printed
as
front matter to
the
1st volume
of
the
new
journal,
the
exact
wording
of
which
is
not
yet definitely
fixed, however.[4]
To
this
program
is
attached
a
typed
addendum,
constituting
an
essential
extension
of it.
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