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 133
... ideas are indispensable to inference because they direct observations and regulate the collection and inspec- tion of data . Without a guiding idea , facts would be heaped up like grains of sand ; they would not be organized into ...
... ideas are indispensable to inference because they direct observations and regulate the collection and inspec- tion of data . Without a guiding idea , facts would be heaped up like grains of sand ; they would not be organized into ...
Page 134
... idea . There may be a vivid image and no idea ; or there may be a fleeting , obscure image and yet an idea , if that image performs the function of instigating and direct- ing the observation and relation of facts . Logical ideas are ...
... idea . There may be a vivid image and no idea ; or there may be a fleeting , obscure image and yet an idea , if that image performs the function of instigating and direct- ing the observation and relation of facts . Logical ideas are ...
Page 135
... ideas of them . Ideas Are Logical Instruments , Not Psychic Compounds . It will be noted that an idea in its logical significance is something quite different from ideas as they are often treated in psychological texts . An idea ...
... ideas of them . Ideas Are Logical Instruments , Not Psychic Compounds . It will be noted that an idea in its logical significance is something quite different from ideas as they are often treated in psychological texts . An idea ...
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