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What misleads us is the fact that the qualities of form , size , color , and so on , are now so distinct that we fail to see that the problem is precisely to account for the way in which they originally obtained their definiteness and ...
What misleads us is the fact that the qualities of form , size , color , and so on , are now so distinct that we fail to see that the problem is precisely to account for the way in which they originally obtained their definiteness and ...
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It is not true that the child's idea of each individual dog is clear and definite to begin with , and that his own dog is perceived by him with its full equipment of distinct qualities . Rather his original idea of Fido is vague and ...
It is not true that the child's idea of each individual dog is clear and definite to begin with , and that his own dog is perceived by him with its full equipment of distinct qualities . Rather his original idea of Fido is vague and ...
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Democritus thought that the substance of everything ought not to have any of 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 .
Democritus thought that the substance of everything ought not to have any of 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 .
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Contents
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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