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So long as an object is unusual , our expectations are baffled ; they are fully determined as soon as it becomes familiar . I therefore pro- pose this as the first practical requisite which a philosophic conception must satisfy : It ...
So long as an object is unusual , our expectations are baffled ; they are fully determined as soon as it becomes familiar . I therefore pro- pose this as the first practical requisite which a philosophic conception must satisfy : It ...
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Now we must suppose too that it is when something enters us from external objects that we not only see but think of ... thing and preserving the corresponding sequence of qualities and movements from the original object as the result of ...
Now we must suppose too that it is when something enters us from external objects that we not only see but think of ... thing and preserving the corresponding sequence of qualities and movements from the original object as the result of ...
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Moreover , hearing , too , results when a current is carried off from the object speaking or sounding or making a noise , or causing in any other way a sensation of hearing . Now this current is split up into particles , each like the ...
Moreover , hearing , too , results when a current is carried off from the object speaking or sounding or making a noise , or causing in any other way a sensation of hearing . Now this current is split up into particles , each like the ...
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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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