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Page 94
... metaphysics and a flare for the practice of metaphysics are not widely diffused , but the gen- uine article , like a love for poetry or painting , is irrepressible once it has had a chance to take root . The readings which follow are in ...
... metaphysics and a flare for the practice of metaphysics are not widely diffused , but the gen- uine article , like a love for poetry or painting , is irrepressible once it has had a chance to take root . The readings which follow are in ...
Page 167
... metaphysics which makes the everyday world an unaccountable puzzle ; any hypothesis which , if followed out , would require some other sort of everyday world than the one we have any such hypothesis is unsatis- factory . In metaphysics ...
... metaphysics which makes the everyday world an unaccountable puzzle ; any hypothesis which , if followed out , would require some other sort of everyday world than the one we have any such hypothesis is unsatis- factory . In metaphysics ...
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... metaphysics worth studying , to pause , and , neglecting everything that has been done , to propose the preliminary question : Is metaphysics possible ? How does it come about that metaphysics , unlike other sciences , cannot obtain ...
... metaphysics worth studying , to pause , and , neglecting everything that has been done , to propose the preliminary question : Is metaphysics possible ? How does it come about that metaphysics , unlike other sciences , cannot obtain ...
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The pragmatic approach to natural theology | 73 |
A METAPHYSICAL PROBLEM | 91 |
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