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A question rightly asked is already half answered , said Jacobi ; we may add that the method of solution is the other half of the answer , and that the actual result counts for nothing by the side of these two .
A question rightly asked is already half answered , said Jacobi ; we may add that the method of solution is the other half of the answer , and that the actual result counts for nothing by the side of these two .
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The question next arises : Are there not somewhere forced options in our speculative questions , and can we ( as men who may be interested at least as much in positively gaining truth as in merely escaping dupery ) always wait with ...
The question next arises : Are there not somewhere forced options in our speculative questions , and can we ( as men who may be interested at least as much in positively gaining truth as in merely escaping dupery ) always wait with ...
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Who shall forbid a wise skepticism , seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had ? Is not marriage an open question , when it is alleged , from the beginning of the world ...
Who shall forbid a wise skepticism , seeing that there is no practical question on which anything more than an approximate solution can be had ? Is not marriage an open question , when it is alleged , from the beginning of the world ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
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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 | 644 pages |
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