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To plant seeds , to cultivate the soil , to harvest grain are intentional acts , possible only to a being who has learned to subordinate the immediately felt elements of an experience to those values which these elements hint at and ...
To plant seeds , to cultivate the soil , to harvest grain are intentional acts , possible only to a being who has learned to subordinate the immediately felt elements of an experience to those values which these elements hint at and ...
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Data ( facts ) and ideas ( suggestions , possible solutions ) thus form the two indispensable and correlative factors of all reflective activity . The two factors are carried on by means respectively of observation ( in which for ...
Data ( facts ) and ideas ( suggestions , possible solutions ) thus form the two indispensable and correlative factors of all reflective activity . The two factors are carried on by means respectively of observation ( in which for ...
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... a million could escape temporary misery or eternal damnation , was not the best possible background for a Church , as the Virgin and the Saviour frankly admitted by taking the foreground ; but the Church was not responsible for it .
... a million could escape temporary misery or eternal damnation , was not the best possible background for a Church , as the Virgin and the Saviour frankly admitted by taking the foreground ; but the Church was not responsible for it .
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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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