Apparently Josef Mitterer was inspired in his philosophy by irritation, a feeling that could have been evoked by his concentration on thechniques of argumentation, ie. those procedures in philosophy which are often a source of impatience to many inquisitive readers. As a main objective of his work Mitterer chose a campaign against dualism in philosophy. This immediastely raises the question, why he believes that dualism is methodologically inferior to other positions, like monism, for instance. His program of escaping from arbitrariness does not look very promising if his main argument in its favor is that it can free philosophy from dualistic conceptions of language or reality
The question of the existence of orbitals is analyzed. The author argues that it is not possible to answer this question univocally if one accepts the assumption of Arthur Fine's 'natural ontological attitude'. From the point of view of theoretical chemistry there are no such things as orbitals. However, diagrammatic representations of atomic and molecular orbitals are very effective tools in the laboratory practice of chemistry and the process of teaching chemistry. For this reason it is advantageous to interpret them realistically.
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