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I live , to be sure , by the practical faith that we must go on experiencing and thinking over our experience , for only thus can our opinions grow more true ; but to hold any one of them -I absolutely do not care which — as if it never ...
I live , to be sure , by the practical faith that we must go on experiencing and thinking over our experience , for only thus can our opinions grow more true ; but to hold any one of them -I absolutely do not care which — as if it never ...
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a case the religious hypothesis in both its branches be really 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 religion ...
a case the religious hypothesis in both its branches be really 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 religion ...
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Even if it be true that human beings have even more instinctive reactions than lower animals , it is also true that instinctive tendencies are much less perfect in men , and that most of them are of little use till they are ...
Even if it be true that human beings have even more instinctive reactions than lower animals , it is also true that instinctive tendencies are much less perfect in men , and that most of them are of little use till they are ...
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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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