Philosophy: Paradox and DiscoveryPHILOSOPHY: PARADOX AND DISCOVERY, 4/e presents philosophy as an immediate, vital, and challenging process of discovery. The text has been specifically designed to help students evaluate their beliefs on basic issues and to see philosophy as a process of discovering and examining the paradoxes inherent in those issues. The forty-one readings in PHILOSOPHY: PARADOX AND DISCOVERY are drawn from classic and contemporary sources. |
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... accepting a belief , and acting upon it , we can at times bring about the consequences which confirm the belief . For ... accept . This view , supported in the readings by Brand Blanshard , a contemporary American philosopher , presumes ...
... accepting a belief , and acting upon it , we can at times bring about the consequences which confirm the belief . For ... accept . This view , supported in the readings by Brand Blanshard , a contemporary American philosopher , presumes ...
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... accepting it as the test . It is conceivable that one thing should be an accurate index of another and still be ... accept , and sketch the theory of truth implicit in it . We shall then take up one by one the objections to this ...
... accepting it as the test . It is conceivable that one thing should be an accurate index of another and still be ... accept , and sketch the theory of truth implicit in it . We shall then take up one by one the objections to this ...
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... accept less . And such facts may be thought to show that we make no actual use of the ideal standard just described . But however much this standard may be relaxed within the limits of a particular science , its influence is evident in ...
... accept less . And such facts may be thought to show that we make no actual use of the ideal standard just described . But however much this standard may be relaxed within the limits of a particular science , its influence is evident in ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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