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If personal observation and the communication of information by oth- ers ( whether in books or speech ) are rightly conducted , half the logical battle is won , for these are the channels of obtaining subject matter , and the method in ...
If personal observation and the communication of information by oth- ers ( whether in books or speech ) are rightly conducted , half the logical battle is won , for these are the channels of obtaining subject matter , and the method in ...
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persons do not look at a watch to find out whether four o'clock is indicated by IIII or by IV , but to find out what time it is , and if observation decides this fact , noting other details is irrelevant and a waste of time .
persons do not look at a watch to find out whether four o'clock is indicated by IIII or by IV , but to find out what time it is , and if observation decides this fact , noting other details is irrelevant and a waste of time .
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his remark — namely , that scientific men never make the accumulation of observations an end in itself , but always ... Until the force of this principle is ade- quately recognized in education , observation will be largely a matter of ...
his remark — namely , that scientific men never make the accumulation of observations an end in itself , but always ... Until the force of this principle is ade- quately recognized in education , observation will be largely a matter of ...
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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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