Logico-meaningful method of P.A. Sorokin

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: Rejoinder; Several book reviews bound together in a red book entitled Sorokin Reviews, Even to Mr. Bierstedt, one is scarcely warranted in imputing the logicalincapacity necessary to dr-aw from these premises the conclusion: "Therefore the category of logical relationship is quite inapplicable to cultural phenomena."To keep my remarks congruous with the general reasoning of the review I have deliberately pitched my rejoinder on a very elementary logical level, and have invalidated derivative effusion with mere syllogism. It would be a sheer waste of time either to dispose of the main argument in other ways or to show the logical and factual fallacies of his minor contentions, such as the alleged "tautological character" of the logico-meaningful method, its arbitrary subjectivity, the past and present of the intuitive current of thought, the role of intuition in scientific discovery and invention, the inferential character of all cognition, the nature of "casual" and "associational"relationships, immanent causation, etc. character of all cognition, the nature of "causal" and "associational" relationships, immanent causation, etc. It is enough to say that in all of these minor points he displays neither a better logic, nor (in his statements of factual character) a sufficient knowledge of the relevant facts. Finally, I wish to say that the "sensate mentality" acknowledged by my reviewer was evidently of such a cast that it proved an insurmountable