Foundations of Western Thought: Six Major Philosophers. [Selection of Readings]James Gordon Clapp |
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... remains substantively identical while changing in some other respect . The problem turns on the question , How can something change and be the same ? The hot iron , both when cooling and when cooled , remains iron — that is , identical ...
... remains substantively identical while changing in some other respect . The problem turns on the question , How can something change and be the same ? The hot iron , both when cooling and when cooled , remains iron — that is , identical ...
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... remains . Certainly nothing remains excepting a certain extended thing which is flexible and movable . But what is the meaning of flexible and movable ? Is it not that I imagine that this piece of wax being round is capable of becoming ...
... remains . Certainly nothing remains excepting a certain extended thing which is flexible and movable . But what is the meaning of flexible and movable ? Is it not that I imagine that this piece of wax being round is capable of becoming ...
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... remains [ open ] to me , but though I have an idea of it which is well founded , yet I have not the least knowl- edge of it , nor can I ever attain it with all the efforts of my natural faculty of reason . Freedom signifies only a ...
... remains [ open ] to me , but though I have an idea of it which is well founded , yet I have not the least knowl- edge of it , nor can I ever attain it with all the efforts of my natural faculty of reason . Freedom signifies only a ...
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absolute action actually admit Agathon Alcibiades Anaxagoras animal appear argument Aristodemus Aristophanes Aristotle attributes body called categorical imperative cause Cebes certainly Cleanthes clearly colour conceive concept concerned consider contrary Crito David Hume definition Descartes desire distinct divine doubt earth Echecrates effect Eryximachus essence eternal exist experience fact faculty false feel formula happiness Hence honour human Hume Hylas ideas imagine impossible intellect intelligible judgment Kant kind knowledge mathematics matter mean merely metaphysics mind moral motion nature never not-being object opinion ousia pain particular perceive perception perfect Phaedo Phaedrus Philonous philosophers Plato pleasure possess possible potentially present principle priori pure reason qualities question rational regard replied scepticism sensation sense sensible things Simmias Socrates sort soul speak species Stranger substance suppose synthetic proposition term Theaetetus thought tion true truth understand universe virtue whole words