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 47
... true ; but to hold any one of them -I absolutely do not care which — as if it never could be reinterpretable or corrigible , I believe to be a tremendously mistaken attitude , and I think that the whole history of philosophy will bear ...
... true ; but to hold any one of them -I absolutely do not care which — as if it never could be reinterpretable or corrigible , I believe to be a tremendously mistaken attitude , and I think that the whole history of philosophy will bear ...
Page 54
... true . ( Of course , we must admit that possibility at the outset . If we are to discuss the question at all , it must involve a living option . If for any of you reli- gion be a hypothesis that cannot , by any living possibility , be true ...
... true . ( Of course , we must admit that possibility at the outset . If we are to discuss the question at all , it must involve a living option . If for any of you reli- gion be a hypothesis that cannot , by any living possibility , be true ...
Page 170
... true that the child will grasp for the moon , but it is true that he needs much practice before he can tell whether an object is within reach or not . The arm is thrust out instinctively in response to a stimulus from the eye , and this ...
... true that the child will grasp for the moon , but it is true that he needs much practice before he can tell whether an object is within reach or not . The arm is thrust out instinctively in response to a stimulus from the eye , and this ...
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JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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