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All forms of artificial apparatus are intentional modifications of natural things so designed that they may serve better than in their natural estate to indicate the hidden , the absent , and the remote . It Enriches Things with ...
All forms of artificial apparatus are intentional modifications of natural things so designed that they may serve better than in their natural estate to indicate the hidden , the absent , and the remote . It Enriches Things with ...
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When things are treated simply as vehicles of suggestion , what is suggested overrides the thing . Hence the playful attitude is one of freedom . The person is not bound to the physical traits of things , nor does he care whether a ...
When things are treated simply as vehicles of suggestion , what is suggested overrides the thing . Hence the playful attitude is one of freedom . The person is not bound to the physical traits of things , nor does he care whether a ...
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At times the injunction is positively misunderstood , being taken to mean that education should advance from things to thought — as if any dealing with things in which thinking is not involved could possibly be educative .
At times the injunction is positively misunderstood , being taken to mean that education should advance from things to thought — as if any dealing with things in which thinking is not involved could possibly be educative .
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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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