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 51
... truth by itself at all . It is only truth as technically verified that interests her . The truth of truths might come in merely affirmative form , and she would decline to touch it . Such truth as that , she might repeat with Clifford ...
... truth by itself at all . It is only truth as technically verified that interests her . The truth of truths might come in merely affirmative form , and she would decline to touch it . Such truth as that , she might repeat with Clifford ...
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Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler. W Of Truth hat is Truth ? " said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer . Certainly there be that delight in giddiness , and count it a bond- age to fix a belief , affecting free ...
Robert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler. W Of Truth hat is Truth ? " said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer . Certainly there be that delight in giddiness , and count it a bond- age to fix a belief , affecting free ...
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... truth , which the conception of natural substance first makes intelligible , justifies the elegies which the poets of illusion and disillusion have always written upon human things . It is a truth with a melancholy side ; but being a truth ...
... truth , which the conception of natural substance first makes intelligible , justifies the elegies which the poets of illusion and disillusion have always written upon human things . It is a truth with a melancholy side ; but being a truth ...
Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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