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no evidence could give the right to believe it to any except those whose actual experience it was ; and no inference worthy of belief could be founded upon it at all . Are we then bound to believe that nature is absolutely and ...
no evidence could give the right to believe it to any except those whose actual experience it was ; and no inference worthy of belief could be founded upon it at all . Are we then bound to believe that nature is absolutely and ...
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pothesis live enough to spend a year in its verification : he believes in it to that extent . ... Can we , by just willing it , believe that Abraham Lincoln's existence is a myth , and that the portraits of him in McClure's Magazine are ...
pothesis live enough to spend a year in its verification : he believes in it to that extent . ... Can we , by just willing it , believe that Abraham Lincoln's existence is a myth , and that the portraits of him in McClure's Magazine are ...
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Although it may indeed happen that when we believe the truth A , we escape as an incidental consequence from believing the falsehood B , it hardly ever hapB pens that by merely disbelieving B we necessarily believe A. We may in escaping ...
Although it may indeed happen that when we believe the truth A , we escape as an incidental consequence from believing the falsehood B , it hardly ever hapB pens that by merely disbelieving B we necessarily believe A. We may in escaping ...
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Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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action activity affection appear become beginning believe better body Books bring called carried cause character Church conception consider course death definite desire direct doubt evidence evil existence experience expression fact faith Faust fear feeling follow force friendship give given hand human idea imagination important individual intellectual intelligence interest keep kind knowledge least less light live logical look material matter meaning method mind moral nature never object observation old age once particular pass person philosopher play pleasure poet possible practical present principle problem qualities question reason reflection relation remains result seems sense soul speak stand suggested suppose things Thomas thought tion true truth turn understanding universe virtue whole wish
Bibliographic information
| 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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