Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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... question rightly asked is already half answered , said Jacobi ; we may add that the method of solution is the other ... question : what relation holds good between these quantities ? So put , the question involves already the con ...
... question rightly asked is already half answered , said Jacobi ; we may add that the method of solution is the other ... question : what relation holds good between these quantities ? So put , the question involves already the con ...
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... question next arises : Are there not somewhere forced options in our speculative questions , and can we ( as men who may be interested at least as much in positively gaining truth as in merely escaping dupery ) always wait with impunity ...
... question next arises : Are there not somewhere forced options in our speculative questions , and can we ( as men who may be interested at least as much in positively gaining truth as in merely escaping dupery ) always wait with impunity ...
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... question , Is this a moral world ? is a meaningless and unverifiable question because it deals with something nonphenomenal . Any question is full of meaning to which , as here , contrary answers lead to contrary behavior . And it seems ...
... question , Is this a moral world ? is a meaningless and unverifiable question because it deals with something nonphenomenal . Any question is full of meaning to which , as here , contrary answers lead to contrary behavior . And it seems ...
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