The Problems of Philosophy: Introductory ReadingsWilliam P. Alston, Richard B. Brandt |
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... answer ; but it's an extremely easy method . ' One might then be inclined to think that it was not a method of finding things out at all . But suppose he answered : Yes , it's usually ( always ) the right answer . Then we might be ...
... answer ; but it's an extremely easy method . ' One might then be inclined to think that it was not a method of finding things out at all . But suppose he answered : Yes , it's usually ( always ) the right answer . Then we might be ...
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... answer some questions to which the above account may give rise . 1. Thus far we have been content to answer the question ' Why does A do B ? ' by saying ' Because all A's do B ' . But there are those who say that such an answer is no ...
... answer some questions to which the above account may give rise . 1. Thus far we have been content to answer the question ' Why does A do B ? ' by saying ' Because all A's do B ' . But there are those who say that such an answer is no ...
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... answer to Question 2 , or Answer 2 because it is not an answer to Question 3 , is surely a confusion . I want to say that Answer 1 is a perfectly satisfactory explanation for the phe- nomenon referred to in Question 1 , though of course ...
... answer to Question 2 , or Answer 2 because it is not an answer to Question 3 , is surely a confusion . I want to say that Answer 1 is a perfectly satisfactory explanation for the phe- nomenon referred to in Question 1 , though of course ...
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The Inconceivability of Gods Nonexistence | 1 |
From Nature to | 2 |
A Critique of the Argument from Design | 3 |
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