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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... Method ( 1931 ) , Law and the Social Order : Essays in Legal Philosophy ( 1933 ) , A Preface to Logic ( 1945 ) , and An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method ( 1934 ) , with his former student , Ernest Nagel . In this excerpt from ...
... Method ( 1931 ) , Law and the Social Order : Essays in Legal Philosophy ( 1933 ) , A Preface to Logic ( 1945 ) , and An Introduction to Logic and Scientific Method ( 1934 ) , with his former student , Ernest Nagel . In this excerpt from ...
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... method of science is more stable , and more important to men of science , than any particular result achieved by its means . In virtue of its method , the enterprise of science is a self - corrective process . It appeals to no special ...
... method of science is more stable , and more important to men of science , than any particular result achieved by its means . In virtue of its method , the enterprise of science is a self - corrective process . It appeals to no special ...
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... method receive a certain color of plausibility because of some indefensible claims made by uncritical enthusiasts . But it is of the essence of scientific method to limit its own pretension . Recognizing that we do not know everything ...
... method receive a certain color of plausibility because of some indefensible claims made by uncritical enthusiasts . But it is of the essence of scientific method to limit its own pretension . Recognizing that we do not know everything ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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