Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopædia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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... true because everybody says so , unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true , and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it . However many nations and generations of ...
... true because everybody says so , unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true , and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it . However many nations and generations of ...
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... true ; but to hold any one of them -I absolutely do not care which — as if it never could be reinterpretable or corrigible , I believe to be a tremendously mistaken attitude , and I think that the whole history of philosophy will bear ...
... true ; but to hold any one of them -I absolutely do not care which — as if it never could be reinterpretable or corrigible , I believe to be a tremendously mistaken attitude , and I think that the whole history of philosophy will bear ...
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... true . ( Of course , we must admit that possibility at the outset . If we are to discuss the question at all , it must involve a living option . If for any of you reli- gion be a hypothesis that cannot , by any living possibility , be true ...
... true . ( Of course , we must admit that possibility at the outset . If we are to discuss the question at all , it must involve a living option . If for any of you reli- gion be a hypothesis that cannot , by any living possibility , be true ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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