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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... kind , while others are comfortable only with the other kind . But it is also essential not to suppose that either kind of theory is more fundamental or more valid than the other . In the history of science there is a PERCEPTION AND ...
... kind , while others are comfortable only with the other kind . But it is also essential not to suppose that either kind of theory is more fundamental or more valid than the other . In the history of science there is a PERCEPTION AND ...
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... kind of theory , some visualizable model is made the pattern for a mechanism hidden from the senses . Some physicists , like Kelvin , cannot be satisfied with anything less than a mechanical explanation of observable phenomena , no ...
... kind of theory , some visualizable model is made the pattern for a mechanism hidden from the senses . Some physicists , like Kelvin , cannot be satisfied with anything less than a mechanical explanation of observable phenomena , no ...
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... kind of thing before it , and acts by the law of the kind immediately , without pausing to verify , will be a " true " mind in ninety - nine out of a hundred emergencies , proved so by its conduct fitting everything it meets , and ...
... kind of thing before it , and acts by the law of the kind immediately , without pausing to verify , will be a " true " mind in ninety - nine out of a hundred emergencies , proved so by its conduct fitting everything it meets , and ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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