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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... regard to objects , which is not so with regard to perceptions . But it is intelligible and consistent to say , that objects exist distinct and independent , without any common simple substance or subject of inhesion . This proposition ...
... regard to objects , which is not so with regard to perceptions . But it is intelligible and consistent to say , that objects exist distinct and independent , without any common simple substance or subject of inhesion . This proposition ...
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... regard to some objects . Why may it not happen always , and with regard to all objects ? What logic , what process of argument secures you against this supposition ? My practice , you say , refutes my doubts . But you mistake the ...
... regard to some objects . Why may it not happen always , and with regard to all objects ? What logic , what process of argument secures you against this supposition ? My practice , you say , refutes my doubts . But you mistake the ...
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... regard them as absolute ? In how far can we regard inability to function socially as diagnostic of abnormality , or in how far is it necessary to regard this as a function of the culture ? As a matter of fact , one of the most striking ...
... regard them as absolute ? In how far can we regard inability to function socially as diagnostic of abnormality , or in how far is it necessary to regard this as a function of the culture ? As a matter of fact , one of the most striking ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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