Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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... believe that nature is absolutely and universally uniform ? Certainly not ; we have no right to believe anything of this kind . The rule only tells us that in forming beliefs which go beyond our experi- ence , we may make the assumption ...
... believe that nature is absolutely and universally uniform ? Certainly not ; we have no right to believe anything of this kind . The rule only tells us that in forming beliefs which go beyond our experi- ence , we may make the assumption ...
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... believe them ; and of just such things is the whole fabric of the truths that we do believe in made up — matters of fact , immediate or remote , as Hume said , and relations between ideas , which are either there or not there for us if ...
... believe them ; and of just such things is the whole fabric of the truths that we do believe in made up — matters of fact , immediate or remote , as Hume said , and relations between ideas , which are either there or not there for us if ...
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... believe the truth A , we escape as an inci- dental consequence from believing the falsehood B , it hardly ever hap- pens that by merely disbelieving B we necessarily believe A. We may in escaping B fall into believing other falsehoods ...
... believe the truth A , we escape as an inci- dental consequence from believing the falsehood B , it hardly ever hap- pens that by merely disbelieving B we necessarily believe A. We may in escaping B fall into believing other falsehoods ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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