The Problems of Philosophy: Introductory ReadingsWilliam P. Alston, Richard B. Brandt |
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... never come in contact with death and has never had to carry crushing financial burdens read in the newspaper that some stranger , formerly a clerk in a certain grocery store , died yesterday after a painful and lingering illness ; he ...
... never come in contact with death and has never had to carry crushing financial burdens read in the newspaper that some stranger , formerly a clerk in a certain grocery store , died yesterday after a painful and lingering illness ; he ...
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... never merge or overlap if persons are not Siamese twins , and they seldom or never do even in these linked organisms . Ideas never fly through the air from one mind to another . The group mind is a fiction , unless it is just the ...
... never merge or overlap if persons are not Siamese twins , and they seldom or never do even in these linked organisms . Ideas never fly through the air from one mind to another . The group mind is a fiction , unless it is just the ...
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... never apart does not , by itself , suffice to prove demonstratively that they will be found together in the next case we examine . The most we can hope is that the oftener things are found together , the more probable it becomes that ...
... never apart does not , by itself , suffice to prove demonstratively that they will be found together in the next case we examine . The most we can hope is that the oftener things are found together , the more probable it becomes that ...
Contents
The Inconceivability of Gods Nonexistence | 1 |
From Nature to | 2 |
A Critique of the Argument from Design | 3 |
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