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No object or principle is so strange , peculiar , or remote that it may not be dwelt upon till its meaning becomes ... We may come to see , perceive , recognize , grasp , seize , lay hold of principles , laws , abstract truths — i.e .
No object or principle is so strange , peculiar , or remote that it may not be dwelt upon till its meaning becomes ... We may come to see , perceive , recognize , grasp , seize , lay hold of principles , laws , abstract truths — i.e .
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He is led into a tirade against all definition , all systematization , all use of general principles , instead of ... Moreover , a flat statement of a general principle may properly come at the beginning , provided it is used to ...
He is led into a tirade against all definition , all systematization , all use of general principles , instead of ... Moreover , a flat statement of a general principle may properly come at the beginning , provided it is used to ...
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But those also who have made considerable progress survey of the main principles ought to bear in mind the scheme of the whole system set forth in its essentials . For we have frequent need of the general view , but not so often of the ...
But those also who have made considerable progress survey of the main principles ought to bear in mind the scheme of the whole system set forth in its essentials . For we have frequent need of the general view , but not so often of the ...
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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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