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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Page 41
... existence is a myth , and that the portraits of him in McClure's Magazine are all of someone else ? Can we , by any effort of our will , or by any strength of wish that it were true , believe ourselves well and about when we are roaring ...
... existence is a myth , and that the portraits of him in McClure's Magazine are all of someone else ? Can we , by any effort of our will , or by any strength of wish that it were true , believe ourselves well and about when we are roaring ...
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... existence . Now it is impossible to conceive the incorporeal as a separate existence , except the void ; and the void can neither act nor be acted upon , but only provides opportunity of motion through itself to bodies . So that those ...
... existence . Now it is impossible to conceive the incorporeal as a separate existence , except the void ; and the void can neither act nor be acted upon , but only provides opportunity of motion through itself to bodies . So that those ...
Page 225
... existence to all of them . All these properties have their own peculiar means of being per- ceived and distinguished , provided always that the aggregate body goes along with them and is never wrested from them , but in virtue of its ...
... existence to all of them . All these properties have their own peculiar means of being per- ceived and distinguished , provided always that the aggregate body goes along with them and is never wrested from them , but in virtue of its ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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