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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... possible to doubt and to test it ? And if possible , is it right ? We shall find reason to answer that it is not only possible and right , but our bounden duty ; that the main purpose of the tradition itself is to supply us with the ...
... possible to doubt and to test it ? And if possible , is it right ? We shall find reason to answer that it is not only possible and right , but our bounden duty ; that the main purpose of the tradition itself is to supply us with the ...
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... possible . It Makes Possible Systematic Preparations and Inventions . By thought man also develops and arranges artificial signs to remind him in advance of consequences and of ways of securing and avoiding them . As the trait just ...
... possible . It Makes Possible Systematic Preparations and Inventions . By thought man also develops and arranges artificial signs to remind him in advance of consequences and of ways of securing and avoiding them . As the trait just ...
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... possible solutions ) thus form the two indispensable and correlative factors of all reflective activity . The two factors are carried on by means respectively of observation ( in which for convenience is included memory of prior ...
... possible solutions ) thus form the two indispensable and correlative factors of all reflective activity . The two factors are carried on by means respectively of observation ( in which for convenience is included memory of prior ...
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JOHN ERSKINE 1 | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES 37 | 37 |
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