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 142
... kind of linguistic sign system - for we must remember that mathematical symbols are also a kind of language . The Means - Consequence Relation and Its Educational Significance . We may sum up by stating that things gain meaning when ...
... kind of linguistic sign system - for we must remember that mathematical symbols are also a kind of language . The Means - Consequence Relation and Its Educational Significance . We may sum up by stating that things gain meaning when ...
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... kind of bed used by a certain folk . The thing in question is no longer unfamiliar in meaning ; to us its significance is settled . They Enable Us to Generalize . Concepts enable us to generalize , to extend and carry over our ...
... kind of bed used by a certain folk . The thing in question is no longer unfamiliar in meaning ; to us its significance is settled . They Enable Us to Generalize . Concepts enable us to generalize , to extend and carry over our ...
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... kind of shape . Furthermore , we must believe that in all worlds there are living creatures and plants and other things we see in this world ; for indeed no one could prove that in a world of one kind there might or might not have been ...
... kind of shape . Furthermore , we must believe that in all worlds there are living creatures and plants and other things we see in this world ; for indeed no one could prove that in a world of one kind there might or might not have been ...
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