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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... seems to me that I see light , that I hear noise and that I feel heat . That cannot be false ; properly speaking it is what is in me called feeling , and used in this precise sense that is no other thing than thinking . From this time I ...
... seems to me that I see light , that I hear noise and that I feel heat . That cannot be false ; properly speaking it is what is in me called feeling , and used in this precise sense that is no other thing than thinking . From this time I ...
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... seems to me , that no one takes any interest in facts , and that the truth of the proposition that your friend exists is an adequate substitute for the fact of his existence . " Facts , " they tell us , are neither true nor false ...
... seems to me , that no one takes any interest in facts , and that the truth of the proposition that your friend exists is an adequate substitute for the fact of his existence . " Facts , " they tell us , are neither true nor false ...
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... seems too superficial to be what we are looking for , since it is thought to depend on those who bestow honor rather than on him who receives it , but the good we divine to be something proper to a man and not easily taken from him ...
... seems too superficial to be what we are looking for , since it is thought to depend on those who bestow honor rather than on him who receives it , but the good we divine to be something proper to a man and not easily taken from him ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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