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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... imagine that this piece of wax being round is capable of becoming square and of passing from a square to a triangular figure ? No , certainly it is not that , since I imagine it admits of an infinitude of similar changes , and I ...
... imagine that this piece of wax being round is capable of becoming square and of passing from a square to a triangular figure ? No , certainly it is not that , since I imagine it admits of an infinitude of similar changes , and I ...
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... imagine that the explosion of gunpowder , or the attraction of a loadstone , could ever be discovered by arguments a priori . In like manner , when an effect is supposed to depend upon an intricate machinery or secret structure of parts ...
... imagine that the explosion of gunpowder , or the attraction of a loadstone , could ever be discovered by arguments a priori . In like manner , when an effect is supposed to depend upon an intricate machinery or secret structure of parts ...
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... Imagine that I am about to play truant ( you may call the proceeding by any name which you like ) , and the laws and the government come and interrogate me : " Tell us , Socrates , " they say , " what are you about ? are you not going ...
... Imagine that I am about to play truant ( you may call the proceeding by any name which you like ) , and the laws and the government come and interrogate me : " Tell us , Socrates , " they say , " what are you about ? are you not going ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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