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 108
... understandings to range in , for the gathering up of information and furnishing their heads with ideas and notions ... Understanding , Bk . IV , Ch . XX , “ Of Wrong Assent or Error . " [ See Great Books of the Western World , Vol . 35 ...
... understandings to range in , for the gathering up of information and furnishing their heads with ideas and notions ... Understanding , Bk . IV , Ch . XX , “ Of Wrong Assent or Error . " [ See Great Books of the Western World , Vol . 35 ...
Page 135
... understanding of its meaning , and hence without an idea of it , even though he could list all its qualities one by one . The fact is that an idea , intellectually , cannot be defined by its structure , but only by its function and use ...
... understanding of its meaning , and hence without an idea of it , even though he could list all its qualities one by one . The fact is that an idea , intellectually , cannot be defined by its structure , but only by its function and use ...
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... understanding — tech- nically called apprehension — with indirect , mediated understanding— technically called comprehension . III THE PROCESS BY WHICH THINGS ACQUIRE MEANING The first problem that comes up in connection with direct ...
... understanding — tech- nically called apprehension — with indirect , mediated understanding— technically called comprehension . III THE PROCESS BY WHICH THINGS ACQUIRE MEANING The first problem that comes up in connection with direct ...
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