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We do not believe in the face suggested by the cloud ; we do not consider at all the probability of its being a fact . There is no reflective thought . The danger of rain , on the contrary , presents itself to us as a genuine ...
We do not believe in the face suggested by the cloud ; we do not consider at all the probability of its being a fact . There is no reflective thought . The danger of rain , on the contrary , presents itself to us as a genuine ...
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Consider first , man , what the matter is , and what your own nature is able to bear . If you would be a wrestler , consider your shoulders , your back , your thighs ; , for different persons are made for different things .
Consider first , man , what the matter is , and what your own nature is able to bear . If you would be a wrestler , consider your shoulders , your back , your thighs ; , for different persons are made for different things .
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I weary of these dogmatizers . I tire of these hacks of routine , who deny the dogmas . I neither affirm nor deny . I stand here to try the case . I am here to consider ( skeptein ) , to consider how it is .
I weary of these dogmatizers . I tire of these hacks of routine , who deny the dogmas . I neither affirm nor deny . I stand here to try the case . I am here to consider ( skeptein ) , to consider how it is .
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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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