Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopædia 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 117
... 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 ...
Page 118
... problem , something intellectual , not just an annoyance at being held up in what we are doing . The person who is suddenly blocked and troubled in what he is doing by the thought of an engagement to keep at a time that is near and a ...
... problem , something intellectual , not just an annoyance at being held up in what we are doing . The person who is suddenly blocked and troubled in what he is doing by the thought of an engagement to keep at a time that is near and a ...
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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 is ...
... 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 is ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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