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It is far too little recognized how entirely the intellect is built up of practical interests . The theory of evolution is beginning to do very good service by its reduction of all mentality to the type of reflex action .
It is far too little recognized how entirely the intellect is built up of practical interests . The theory of evolution is beginning to do very good service by its reduction of all mentality to the type of reflex action .
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There is , however , an important difference between test by overt action in practical deliberations and in scientific investigations . In the former the practical commitment involved in overt action is much more serious than in the ...
There is , however , an important difference between test by overt action in practical deliberations and in scientific investigations . In the former the practical commitment involved in overt action is much more serious than in the ...
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The great majority of men under ordinary circumstances find the practical exigencies of life almost , if not quite , coercive . Their main business is the proper conduct of their affairs . Whatever is of significance only as affording ...
The great majority of men under ordinary circumstances find the practical exigencies of life almost , if not quite , coercive . Their main business is the proper conduct of their affairs . Whatever is of significance only as affording ...
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Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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| 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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