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 90
... Perhaps every action of the individual could be explained in terms of the laws of motion . Perhaps people were machines . Thomas Hobbes , the most radical materialist of the day , attempted to extend the principles of physics into ...
... Perhaps every action of the individual could be explained in terms of the laws of motion . Perhaps people were machines . Thomas Hobbes , the most radical materialist of the day , attempted to extend the principles of physics into ...
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... Perhaps , in the end , there is no single relation of a statement which qualifies it as true . Perhaps the more of these three possible relations a statement has , the more confident we can be of its truthfulness , and the fewer it has ...
... Perhaps , in the end , there is no single relation of a statement which qualifies it as true . Perhaps the more of these three possible relations a statement has , the more confident we can be of its truthfulness , and the fewer it has ...
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... perhaps cultivate some new interests , and optimize their satisfaction . Usually among these interests will be such things as friendships and families ( or perhaps one gets his greatest kicks from working for UNICEF ) . And , of course ...
... perhaps cultivate some new interests , and optimize their satisfaction . Usually among these interests will be such things as friendships and families ( or perhaps one gets his greatest kicks from working for UNICEF ) . And , of course ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
Copyright | |
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