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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... appear in the same colour which it exhibits to the naked eye . Hylas : And what will you conclude from all this ? You cannot argue that there are really and naturally no colours on objects , because by artificial managements they may be ...
... appear in the same colour which it exhibits to the naked eye . Hylas : And what will you conclude from all this ? You cannot argue that there are really and naturally no colours on objects , because by artificial managements they may be ...
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... appear differently coloured by candle - light , from what they do in the open day ? Add to these the experiment of a prism , which separating the heterogeneous rays of light , alters the colour of any object ; and will cause the whitest ...
... appear differently coloured by candle - light , from what they do in the open day ? Add to these the experiment of a prism , which separating the heterogeneous rays of light , alters the colour of any object ; and will cause the whitest ...
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... appear , if our explication of that species of reasoning be admitted as solid and satisfactory . We have said that all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect ; that our knowledge of that relation ...
... appear , if our explication of that species of reasoning be admitted as solid and satisfactory . We have said that all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect ; that our knowledge of that relation ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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