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They Become More Definite with Use . ... vague or definite according to his stage of experience , on all animals that are at all similar to dogs , applying it when he can , becoming aware of differences whenever it won't fit .
They Become More Definite with Use . ... vague or definite according to his stage of experience , on all animals that are at all similar to dogs , applying it when he can , becoming aware of differences whenever it won't fit .
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To the specialist , conceptual meanings become a subject matter of their own . It is an intellectual satisfaction to develop them in their logical relations of interdependence , of implication , without any reference at all to their ...
To the specialist , conceptual meanings become a subject matter of their own . It is an intellectual satisfaction to develop them in their logical relations of interdependence , of implication , without any reference at all to their ...
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In this separation , “ facts ” become a dead weight of undigested , mechanical , largely verbal , so - called “ information , " while ideas become so remote from objects and acts of experience that they are empty .
In this separation , “ facts ” become a dead weight of undigested , mechanical , largely verbal , so - called “ information , " while ideas become so remote from objects and acts of experience that they are empty .
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Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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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 | 580 pages |
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