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 140
... qualities . The drawings are diagrammatic reminders of these values , not impartial records of physical and sensory qualities . One of the chief difficulties felt by most persons in learning the art of pictorial representation is that ...
... qualities . The drawings are diagrammatic reminders of these values , not impartial records of physical and sensory qualities . One of the chief difficulties felt by most persons in learning the art of pictorial representation is that ...
Page 148
... qualities . Rather his original idea of Fido is vague and pulpy , wavering , as long as Fido is the only dog ( and much more so if the only animal ) he knows . By observing the family cat , he is led to discriminate the particular qualities ...
... qualities . Rather his original idea of Fido is vague and pulpy , wavering , as long as Fido is the only dog ( and much more so if the only animal ) he knows . By observing the family cat , he is led to discriminate the particular qualities ...
Page 368
... qualities present in some things and absent in others ; it ought to have only the qualities present in all things . It should be merely matter . Materiality , according to him , consisted of extension , figure , and solidity ; in the ...
... qualities present in some things and absent in others ; it ought to have only the qualities present in all things . It should be merely matter . Materiality , according to him , consisted of extension , figure , and solidity ; in the ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
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