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 103
... light and shade , to one to whom they are not linguistic signs . To him for whom they are signs of other things , the collection of marks stands for some idea or object . We are so used to the fact that things have meaning for us , that ...
... light and shade , to one to whom they are not linguistic signs . To him for whom they are signs of other things , the collection of marks stands for some idea or object . We are so used to the fact that things have meaning for us , that ...
Page 145
... light hitherto unseen is detected in the heavens . Unless there is a store of meanings to fall back upon in reasoning , that speck of light will remain just what it is to the senses — a mere speck of light . For all that it leads to ...
... light hitherto unseen is detected in the heavens . Unless there is a store of meanings to fall back upon in reasoning , that speck of light will remain just what it is to the senses — a mere speck of light . For all that it leads to ...
Page 347
... light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit . First he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos ; then he breathed light into the face of man ; and ...
... light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit . First he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos ; then he breathed light into the face of man ; and ...
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