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The article cites a case of outpatient treatment of a seriously disturbed child in a child guidance center. An attempt to evolve a suitable treatment plan for a child like the one studied in the article raises questions that cannot be answered with certainty. Despite current theories about the preference for residential treatment for the severely disturbed child, the diagnostic team at the Center proposed a plan for out patient therapy. This was done with full knowledge that such a plan would require more treatment hours over a longer period of time than is accorded the average treatment case.

Cites that natural law theorists in political and legal philosophy evolved their concepts of "what ought to be" from the factual "what is". Opposition to Natural Law based on the contention that no postulate in the world "ought" could logically be derived from any statement in the world of "is"; Consideration of the state of mutual dependence by members of the society; Establishment of inductive conclusions; Demonstration of the value of the means in relation to the value of the end.

Presents the theory of inquiry of John Dewey in a way which makes clear its relations to absolute idealism. Statement of his instrumentalistic theory of knowledge; Dissolution of the distinction between pure and applied logic; Acknowledgement by Dewey of the force of the idealistic argument.

Examines the hypostatic and factorial categorial scheme of C.S. Peirce. Explanation of the fragmentary work of Peirce; Varied accounts of the categorial scheme; Characterization of the categories in terms of modes of being; Preliminary qualification of the categorial scheme.