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Secondly , next to these are men whose understandings are cast into a mold , and fashioned just to the size of a received hypothesis . ... Essay Concerning Human Understanding , Bk . IV , Ch . XX , “ Of Wrong Assent or Error .
Secondly , next to these are men whose understandings are cast into a mold , and fashioned just to the size of a received hypothesis . ... Essay Concerning Human Understanding , Bk . IV , Ch . XX , “ Of Wrong Assent or Error .
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In one case understanding is direct , prompt , immediate ; in the other , it is roundabout and delayed . Most languages have two sets of words to express these two modes of understanding ; one for the direct taking in or grasp of ...
In one case understanding is direct , prompt , immediate ; in the other , it is roundabout and delayed . Most languages have two sets of words to express these two modes of understanding ; one for the direct taking in or grasp of ...
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Our intellectual progress consists , as has been said , in a rhythm of direct understanding - technically called apprehension — with indirect , mediated understanding , technically called comprehension . III THE PROCESS BY WHICH THINGS ...
Our intellectual progress consists , as has been said , in a rhythm of direct understanding - technically called apprehension — with indirect , mediated understanding , technically called comprehension . III THE PROCESS BY WHICH THINGS ...
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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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