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 138
... principle is so strange , peculiar , or remote that it may not be dwelt upon till its meaning becomes famil- iar - taken in on sight without reflection . We may come to see , perceive , recognize , grasp , seize , lay hold of principles ...
... principle is so strange , peculiar , or remote that it may not be dwelt upon till its meaning becomes famil- iar - taken in on sight without reflection . We may come to see , perceive , recognize , grasp , seize , lay hold of principles ...
Page 168
... principles , instead of confining himself to pointing out their futility and their dead- ness when not properly motivated by familiarity with concrete experi- ences . Moreover , a flat statement of a general principle may properly come ...
... principles , instead of confining himself to pointing out their futility and their dead- ness when not properly motivated by familiarity with concrete experi- ences . Moreover , a flat statement of a general principle may properly come ...
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... principles in each department , in order that as occasion arises they may be able to assist themselves on the most important points , in so far as they undertake the study of nature . But those also who have made considerable progress ...
... principles in each department , in order that as occasion arises they may be able to assist themselves on the most important points , in so far as they undertake the study of nature . But those also who have made considerable progress ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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