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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Page 112
... particular perceptions , which are of a like nature with all the other perceptions . This is the doctrine of philosophers . But this table , which is present to me , and that chimney , may , and do exist separately . This is the ...
... particular perceptions , which are of a like nature with all the other perceptions . This is the doctrine of philosophers . But this table , which is present to me , and that chimney , may , and do exist separately . This is the ...
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... particular effect , in all natural operations , is arbitrary , where we consult not experience ; so must we also esteem the supposed tie or connection between the cause and effect , which binds them together , and renders it impossible ...
... particular effect , in all natural operations , is arbitrary , where we consult not experience ; so must we also esteem the supposed tie or connection between the cause and effect , which binds them together , and renders it impossible ...
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... particular civilization does not use . The very eyes with which we see the problem are conditioned by the long traditional habits of our own society . It is a point that has been made more often in relation to ethics than in relation to ...
... particular civilization does not use . The very eyes with which we see the problem are conditioned by the long traditional habits of our own society . It is a point that has been made more often in relation to ethics than in relation to ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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