Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopędia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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Page 46
... doubt that I now exist before you , that two is less than three , or that if all men are mortal then I am mortal too , it is be- cause these things illumine my intellect irresistibly . The final ground of this objective evidence ...
... doubt that I now exist before you , that two is less than three , or that if all men are mortal then I am mortal too , it is be- cause these things illumine my intellect irresistibly . The final ground of this objective evidence ...
Page 86
... doubt ? Why , doubt itself is a decision of the widest practical reach , if only because we may miss by doubting what goods we might be gaining by espousing the winning side . But more than that ! It is often practically impossible to ...
... doubt ? Why , doubt itself is a decision of the widest practical reach , if only because we may miss by doubting what goods we might be gaining by espousing the winning side . But more than that ! It is often practically impossible to ...
Page 426
... doubt ! " he might say ; " we can conduct our works as well on that as on any other theory , or as we could on no theory at all ; but , if you offer it as proof , we can only say that we have not yet reduced all motion to one source or ...
... doubt ! " he might say ; " we can conduct our works as well on that as on any other theory , or as we could on no theory at all ; but , if you offer it as proof , we can only say that we have not yet reduced all motion to one source or ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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