Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopædia 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 222
... least part in the atom too bears the same relation to the whole ; for though in smallness it is obvious that it exceeds that which is seen by sensation , yet it has the same relations . For indeed we have already declared on the ground ...
... least part in the atom too bears the same relation to the whole ; for though in smallness it is obvious that it exceeds that which is seen by sensation , yet it has the same relations . For indeed we have already declared on the ground ...
Page 379
... least apply ? Observe that this suggestion is not in the least opposed to any of the arguments by which science might prove the atomic theory to be correct . All that Epicurus taught about the universe now before us might be perfectly ...
... least apply ? Observe that this suggestion is not in the least opposed to any of the arguments by which science might prove the atomic theory to be correct . All that Epicurus taught about the universe now before us might be perfectly ...
Page 448
... least half of them seemed to diverge from any imaginable center of unity ! Dimly conscious that his Trinity required in logic a fourth dimension , how was the schoolman to supply it , when even the mathematician of today can only infer ...
... least half of them seemed to diverge from any imaginable center of unity ! Dimly conscious that his Trinity required in logic a fourth dimension , how was the schoolman to supply it , when even the mathematician of today can only infer ...
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