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 100
... problem to be solved or a difficulty to be surmounted , the course of suggestions flows on at random ; we have the first type of thought described . If the stream of suggestions is controlled simply by their emotional congruity , their ...
... problem to be solved or a difficulty to be surmounted , the course of suggestions flows on at random ; we have the first type of thought described . If the stream of suggestions is controlled simply by their emotional congruity , their ...
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... problem to be solved , a question for which the answer must be sought ; ( 3 ) the use of one sugges- tion after ... problem , a problem made out of whole cloth or arising out of a vacuum . In reality such a “ problem ” is simply an ...
... problem to be solved , a question for which the answer must be sought ; ( 3 ) the use of one sugges- tion after ... problem , a problem made out of whole cloth or arising out of a vacuum . In reality such a “ problem ” is simply an ...
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... problem as a problem . What often makes observation in schools intellectually ineffec- tive is ( more than anything else ) that it is carried on without a sense of a problem that it helps define and solve . The evil of this isolation ...
... problem as a problem . What often makes observation in schools intellectually ineffec- tive is ( more than anything else ) that it is carried on without a sense of a problem that it helps define and solve . The evil of this isolation ...
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JOHN ERSKINE 1 | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES 37 | 37 |
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