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... will always escape gleefully into the teeming and dramatic richness of the concrete world . So our study turns back here to its beginning . Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose .
... will always escape gleefully into the teeming and dramatic richness of the concrete world . So our study turns back here to its beginning . Every way of classifying a thing is but a way of handling it for some particular purpose .
Page 155
The state of his room is perceived and is particular , definite - exactly as it is ; a burglar is inferred . But no particular individual is thought of ; merely some indefinite , unspeci- fied , member of a class .
The state of his room is perceived and is particular , definite - exactly as it is ; a burglar is inferred . But no particular individual is thought of ; merely some indefinite , unspeci- fied , member of a class .
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If , therefore , we think that a phenomenon prob- ably occurs in some such particular way , and that in circumstances under which it is equally possible for us to be at peace , when we realize that it may occur in several ways ...
If , therefore , we think that a phenomenon prob- ably occurs in some such particular way , and that in circumstances under which it is equally possible for us to be at peace , when we realize that it may occur in several ways ...
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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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