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Page 97
We do not believe in the face suggested by the cloud ; we do not consider at all the probability of its being a fact . There is no reflective thought . The danger of rain , on the contrary , presents itself to us as a genuine possi- ...
We do not believe in the face suggested by the cloud ; we do not consider at all the probability of its being a fact . There is no reflective thought . The danger of rain , on the contrary , presents itself to us as a genuine possi- ...
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For you have never entered upon anything consider- ately ; nor after having surveyed and tested the whole matter , but care- lessly , and with a halfway zeal . Thus some , when they have seen a philosopher and heard a man speaking like ...
For you have never entered upon anything consider- ately ; nor after having surveyed and tested the whole matter , but care- lessly , and with a halfway zeal . Thus some , when they have seen a philosopher and heard a man speaking like ...
Page 538
Consider whether you have satisfied your relations to father , mother , cousin , neighbor , town , cat and dog - whether any of these can upbraid you . But I may also neglect this reflex standard and absolve me to myself .
Consider whether you have satisfied your relations to father , mother , cousin , neighbor , town , cat and dog - whether any of these can upbraid you . But I may also neglect this reflex standard and absolve me to myself .
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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