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The question of right or wrong has to do with the origin of his belief , not the matter of it ; not what it was , but how he got it ; not whether it turned out to be true or false , but whether he had a right to believe on such evidence ...
The question of right or wrong has to do with the origin of his belief , not the matter of it ; not what it was , but how he got it ; not whether it turned out to be true or false , but whether he had a right to believe on such evidence ...
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Scholastic orthodoxy , to which one must always go when one wishes to find perfectly clear statement , has beautifully elaborated this absolutist conviction in a doctrine which it calls that of “ objective evidence .
Scholastic orthodoxy , to which one must always go when one wishes to find perfectly clear statement , has beautifully elaborated this absolutist conviction in a doctrine which it calls that of “ objective evidence .
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Such thoughts are prejudices ; that is , prejudgments , not conclusions reached as the result of personal mental activity , such as observing , collecting , and examining evidence . Even when they happen to be correct , their ...
Such thoughts are prejudices ; that is , prejudgments , not conclusions reached as the result of personal mental activity , such as observing , collecting , and examining evidence . Even when they happen to be correct , their ...
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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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