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Secondly , next to these are men whose understandings are cast into a mold , and fashioned just to the size of a received hypothesis ... Essay Concerning Human Understanding , Bk . IV , Ch . XX , " Of Wrong Assent or Error .
Secondly , next to these are men whose understandings are cast into a mold , and fashioned just to the size of a received hypothesis ... Essay Concerning Human Understanding , Bk . IV , Ch . XX , " Of Wrong Assent or Error .
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Our intellectual prog- ress consists , as has been said , in a rhythm of direct understanding - tech- nically called apprehension — with indirect , mediated understanding— technically called comprehension .
Our intellectual prog- ress consists , as has been said , in a rhythm of direct understanding - tech- nically called apprehension — with indirect , mediated understanding— technically called comprehension .
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In short , there is a challenge to understanding only when there is either a desired consequence for which means have to be found by inquiry , or things ( including symbols in the degree in which experience has matured ) are presented ...
In short , there is a challenge to understanding only when there is either a desired consequence for which means have to be found by inquiry , or things ( including symbols in the degree in which experience has matured ) are presented ...
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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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