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 67
... object , and immediately uneasiness takes possession of the mind . But in every novel or unclassified experience ... object that might , if chased , prove an important addition to the larder . Novelty ought to irritate him . All ...
... object , and immediately uneasiness takes possession of the mind . But in every novel or unclassified experience ... object that might , if chased , prove an important addition to the larder . Novelty ought to irritate him . All ...
Page 219
... object because of the constant filling up of what is lost . The flow of images preserves for a long time the position and order of the atoms in the solid body , though it is occasionally confused . Moreover , compound idols are quickly ...
... object because of the constant filling up of what is lost . The flow of images preserves for a long time the position and order of the atoms in the solid body , though it is occasionally confused . Moreover , compound idols are quickly ...
Page 220
... object which emitted the sound : this unity it is which in most cases produces comprehension in the recipient , or , if not , merely makes manifest the presence of the external object . For without the transference from the object of ...
... object which emitted the sound : this unity it is which in most cases produces comprehension in the recipient , or , if not , merely makes manifest the presence of the external object . For without the transference from the object of ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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