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The Means - Consequence Relation and Its Educational Significance . We may sum up by stating that things gain meaning when they are used as means to bring about consequences ( or as means to prevent the occurrence of undesired ...
The Means - Consequence Relation and Its Educational Significance . We may sum up by stating that things gain meaning when they are used as means to bring about consequences ( or as means to prevent the occurrence of undesired ...
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Our direct sensible relation to things is very limited . The suggestion of meanings by natural signs is limited to occasions of direct contact or vision . But a meaning fixed by a linguistic sign is conserved for future use .
Our direct sensible relation to things is very limited . The suggestion of meanings by natural signs is limited to occasions of direct contact or vision . But a meaning fixed by a linguistic sign is conserved for future use .
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The effort was to see the whole universe in relation to God and to understand the law by which the universe is governed . But it was also to determine the place of man under that law . Indeed , the relation between man and God was the ...
The effort was to see the whole universe in relation to God and to understand the law by which the universe is governed . But it was also to determine the place of man under that law . Indeed , the relation between man and God was the ...
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Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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Bibliographic information
| 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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