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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... continued existence of atmospheric pressure depends upon the continued existence of gravity . In his second argument , then , Aquinas is asking whether there can be an infinite series of such causes . If there cannot be such a series ...
... continued existence of atmospheric pressure depends upon the continued existence of gravity . In his second argument , then , Aquinas is asking whether there can be an infinite series of such causes . If there cannot be such a series ...
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... continued object . This resemblance is the cause of the confusion and mistake , and makes us substitute the notion of identity , instead of that of related objects . However , at one instant we may consider the related succession as ...
... continued object . This resemblance is the cause of the confusion and mistake , and makes us substitute the notion of identity , instead of that of related objects . However , at one instant we may consider the related succession as ...
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... continued survey of the same object . There is a very remarkable circumstance that attends this experiment ; which ... continued perception , it ascribes a continued existence and identity to the object . But whatever precaution we may ...
... continued survey of the same object . There is a very remarkable circumstance that attends this experiment ; which ... continued perception , it ascribes a continued existence and identity to the object . But whatever precaution we may ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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