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 130
... methods of proce- dure so current in elementary instruction . The method that is employed in discovery , in reflective inquiry , cannot possibly be identified with the method that emerges after the discovery is made . In the genuine ...
... methods of proce- dure so current in elementary instruction . The method that is employed in discovery , in reflective inquiry , cannot possibly be identified with the method that emerges after the discovery is made . In the genuine ...
Page 131
... method definiteness ; given this definiteness , precipitation into formulated state- ment should follow naturally . But because teachers find that the things that they themselves best understand are marked off and defined in clear - cut ...
... method definiteness ; given this definiteness , precipitation into formulated state- ment should follow naturally . But because teachers find that the things that they themselves best understand are marked off and defined in clear - cut ...
Page 154
... method as it operates in gathering and testing the data that form the evidence upon which an inference must rest to be properly supported - method of control of observation and memory , which supply the facts upon which inference ...
... method as it operates in gathering and testing the data that form the evidence upon which an inference must rest to be properly supported - method of control of observation and memory , which supply the facts upon which inference ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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