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Where there is no question of a problem to be solved or a difficulty to be surmounted , the course of suggestions flows on at random ; we have the first type of thought described . If the stream of suggestions is controlled simply by ...
Where there is no question of a problem to be solved or a difficulty to be surmounted , the course of suggestions flows on at random ; we have the first type of thought described . If the stream of suggestions is controlled simply by ...
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that has been felt ( directly experienced ) into a problem to be solved , a question for which the answer must be sought ; ( 3 ) the use of one sugges- tion after another as a leading idea , or hypothesis , to initiate and guide ...
that has been felt ( directly experienced ) into a problem to be solved , a question for which the answer must be sought ; ( 3 ) the use of one sugges- tion after another as a leading idea , or hypothesis , to initiate and guide ...
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As problems emerge and are dwelt upon , observation is directed less to facts that bear upon a practical aim and more ... is ( more than anything else ) that it is carried on without a sense of a problem that it helps define and solve .
As problems emerge and are dwelt upon , observation is directed less to facts that bear upon a practical aim and more ... is ( more than anything else ) that it is carried on without a sense of a problem that it helps define and solve .
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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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