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Page 274
... fiction . This quite apart from the contradiction involved by the idea of prayer in relation to natural laws . The materialistic conception of the world is a necessary and useful fiction . It proceeds as if the external world did ...
... fiction . This quite apart from the contradiction involved by the idea of prayer in relation to natural laws . The materialistic conception of the world is a necessary and useful fiction . It proceeds as if the external world did ...
Page 277
... fiction is the awareness accompany- ing its use that it is just a fiction . This holds only of normal fic- tions ; or rather , of fictions normally held . In the history of the sciences this is frequently not the case . The first ...
... fiction is the awareness accompany- ing its use that it is just a fiction . This holds only of normal fic- tions ; or rather , of fictions normally held . In the history of the sciences this is frequently not the case . The first ...
Page 283
... fiction ? 19. Why does he describe it as " one of the most important fictions ever formed by man ' ? 20. " True morality rests upon fictions . " Explain . 21. Cite an example of a fiction in mathematical thought . 22. In mechanics . 23 ...
... fiction ? 19. Why does he describe it as " one of the most important fictions ever formed by man ' ? 20. " True morality rests upon fictions . " Explain . 21. Cite an example of a fiction in mathematical thought . 22. In mechanics . 23 ...
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