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cumulative effect of these forces is to shut in the mind , and to create a withdrawal from new intellectual contacts that are needed for learning . They can best be fought by cultivating that alert curiosity and spontane- ous ...
cumulative effect of these forces is to shut in the mind , and to create a withdrawal from new intellectual contacts that are needed for learning . They can best be fought by cultivating that alert curiosity and spontane- ous ...
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On the other side , there are the speculations that come to mind and that lead to search for additional subject matter which will both develop the proposed the- ories as ideas and test their value . Mere facts or data are dead , as far ...
On the other side , there are the speculations that come to mind and that lead to search for additional subject matter which will both develop the proposed the- ories as ideas and test their value . Mere facts or data are dead , as far ...
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The ideas , on the other hand , occur , as we say , in our heads , in our minds . ... Given a fertile suggestion occurring in an experienced , well - informed mind , that mind is capable of elaborating it until there results an idea ...
The ideas , on the other hand , occur , as we say , in our heads , in our minds . ... Given a fertile suggestion occurring in an experienced , well - informed mind , that mind is capable of elaborating it until there results an idea ...
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| Title | Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essays Volume 10 of Gateway to the Great Books, Robert Maynard Hutchins |
| Editors | Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler |
| Publisher | Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 |
| Length | 644 pages |
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